
Telecommunication in French Polynesia
Compared to the United States, French Polynesia has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +689, there were a total of 430,969 connections in 2021. Among them were 322,918 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.1 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 37,949 webhosts, French Polynesia is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 345 of these, or about 1 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.Access to the internet in French Polynesia from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet in French Polynesia 2001 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | French Polynesia Total | French Polynesia percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 59,319.00 | 19.51 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 108,051.00 | 35.54 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 322,918.00 | 106.21 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |