The Office of Post and Telecommunications (Office des Postes et Télécommunication) plays a dominant role in French Polynesia's market. They are responsible for all fixed line services, most mobile connections, and the majority of all Internet traffic. They wholly own the country's largest mobile carrier and ISP. Competitive mobile and broadband networks have made few inroads. A note for provider market share statistics - Vodafone French Polynesia uses IP addresses from OPT, so does not appear in our statistics.

A single international cable, Honotua, has connected Tahiti to Hawaii since 2010. For some of the life of the cable, all traffic was connected directly onwards to the United States, as connectivity to Honolulu and other cables landing in Hawaii was cost prohibitive. Today it is possible to connect directly from Honolulu to Tahiti.

Within the island group, domestic submarine fibre connects Tahiti to Moorea, Huahine, Raiatea, and Bora Bora - however capacity is limited by both the age of the equipment in use and the distance of some spans of fibre.

Government and operators in French Polynesia understand their single path to the world via Honotua is tenuous, and an outage could be extremely disruptive to the economy. Several attempts have been made by private operators to provide a second cable, including the SPIN cable and the Moana Cable, which may still link the island group to Fiji via the Cook Islands.