The 3600km Manatua One Polynesia Cable connects Apia in Samoa, Niue, Rarotonga and Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, and Tahiti and Bora Bora in French Polynesia.
The cable is capable of operating at up to 10 tera bits per second (= 10,000,000 megabits per second) using state-of-the-art fibre optic technology, enough speed to download 300 high definition movies every single second.
Avaroa Cable Limited manages the interests of the Cook Islands in the Manatua Cable. The following details the key milestones achieved in enabling fibre optic internet conectivity to Rarotonga and Aitutaki.