ONATi

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ONATi
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1995 (as Tikiphone)
2013 (as SAS Vini)
Area served
 French Polynesia
Key people
Christophe Bergues, CEO
Revenue19.3 billion XPF (2021) [1]
Number of employees
634 [1]
Parent OPT
Website www.onati.pf

ONATi is a telecommunications provider in French Polynesia providing fixed-line telephone services, mobile phone services, and broadband. [2] In 2022 it was ranked as the second largest company in French Polynesia by turnover. [1] It is a subsidiary of the state-owned OPT. [3]

The company was founded in 2013 from a merger of the OPT subsidiaries Tikiphone, TNS, and Mana. [4] [5] It was named after the Crimson-backed tanager, which had been used as branding for Tikiphone since 1995. [6] The same month it announced the deployment of 4G technology in Papeete. [7] Shortly after its formation, the OPT's monopoly on mobile phone services ended with the entry of Vodafone into the French Polynesian market. [8]

In June 2018 the Polynesian Competition Authority found that Vini was engaging in unfair and anti-competitive practices, with discriminatory pricing for inter-network SMS messages, and exclusive contracts for prepaid cards. It gave the company three months to end the practices. [9]

The company was reorganised in 2019 and renamed ONATi. [10] In July 2021 chief executive Yannick Teriierooiterai was fired after poor financial results. [10] In December 2022 his successor, Thomas Lefebvre-Segard, was dismissed for similar reasons. [11] He was replaced by Christophe Bergues. [12]

In April 2023 the Polynesian Competition Authority took precautionary measures against ONATi, ordering it to provide fair roaming charges to Viti. [13]

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