Connecting Polynesian archipelagos to broadband with Natitua submarine cable

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The Polynesian government has commissioned the Polynesian public telecommunications operator, Office des Postes et Télécommunications (OPT), to connect 20 Marquesas and Tuamotu islands to high-speed internet. To do so, the Natitua project offers a long-term solution by combining two types of connection technology. The first, a network of submarine cables spanning 2,600 km, was pulled by a cable layer, connecting Tahiti and ten of the Marquesas and Tuamotu islands. Microwave radio waves are then transmitted from these islands to connect the other ten islands to the cable.At the same time, work was carried out on each island to update local connections (fiber optic and radio links) in order to connect end users, administrative sites and cellular networks.