Agony of corporate and individual internet users in Nigeria which has lasted since Thursday is not about to end soon as the latest reports indicate the service disruption may last for a further five weeks.
One of the undersea cable
companies affected by the service disruptions, MainOne, said in a statement on
Friday evening that the situation might persist for two to three weeks for the
problem to be fixed.
It explained that
investigations revealed that the fault came from an external incident that
resulted in a cut on the submarine cable system in the ocean.
MainOne said the rectification
of the fault, retrieving necessary spares required for repair, “sailing to the
fault location for the repair work might take one to two weeks, while about two
to three weeks of transit time may be required for the vessel to pick up the
spares and travel from Europe to West Africa once the vessel is mobilised”.
Internet providers in Nigeria
have resorted to telecommunications company, Globacom as massive internet
outages crippled other networks. Glo 1,
solely owned by it was not affected by the damage and has continued to operate
normally.
Data users, internet service
providers and financial institutions which run on Glo 1 have continued to
operate seamlessly. To this end, telecommunications companies and some banks whose
operations are hinged on the rely on the affected cables for internet services
went down for several hours.
The damage, according to industry reports
affected major undersea cables near Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, culminating to
internet downtime across West and South African countries.
The affected cables are those of the West
Africa Cable System (WACS), the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE), MainOne, and
SAT3. Industry watchers gave kudos to the resilience of Glo 1 International
Submarine Cable which inoculated it against the reported damage.
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