The telecommunications market in Samoa is fully liberalised. Its incumbent has had competition from privatised government department CSL since 2004, and regional mobile carrier Digicel since 2006. In 2011, the country's incumbent SamoaTel was sold to Spanish-owned BlueSky - then in 2016 BlueSky was acquired by Fiji's Amalgamated Telecommunications Holdings. Through telecommunications partner Huawei, the government of Samoa operates its on fixed and mobile network independent to the three carriers.

Samoans have access to fixed and mobile telephony, fixed wired and WiMax broadband, metro WiFi coverage, and mobile broadband. BlueSky customers have access to twenty four channels of IPTV delivered over broadband.

While Samoa is connected by a modern submarine fibre optic cable to American Samoa, onwards connectivity from American Samoa to Hawaii on the ASH cable is severely constrained. As a result, Digicel Samoa routes its traffic to Hawaii via the O3b satellite network. Two future cable projects will have a positive impact: Tui Cable and Hawaiki. Tui cable will connect to the Southern Cross Cable Network in Fiji. Hawaiki will connect neighbouring American Samoa to Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Oregon.