Office des postes et télécommunications de Polynésie française | |
Foundation: | 8 March 1985 |
Hq Location: | Papeʻete |
Area Served: | French Polynesia |
Key People: | Jean-François Martin (President-Director General) |
Num Employees: | 1,341 |
Industry: | Telecommunications Postal services |
Net Income: | F −937 million[1] |
Net Income Year: | 2019 |
Assets: | F 83.864 billion |
Assets Year: | 2019 |
Equity: | F 50.167 billion |
Equity Year: | 2019 |
Num Employees Year: | 2019 |
The Office des postes et télécommunications de Polynésie française (OPT,) is an établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial responsible for providing postal, telecommunications, and basic financial services in French Polynesia. Its head office is located at the Hôtel des Postes in Papeete.
Postal and telecommunications services were originally provided by the Office d’État des postes et télécommunications de la Polynésie française, created in 1962 after the arrival of the Pacific Experimentation Center.[2] Following the granting of internal autonomy to French Polynesia in 1984, the Assembly of French Polynesia created an EPIC to provide those services instead.[3]
As of 2023 the company has five major subsidiaries:[4]
The OPT is part of the International Telecommunication Union,[5] the Universal Postal Union,[6] the Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA),[7] and the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC).[8]