A combination of cable cuts, resulting in equipment faults on the major undersea cables along the West African Coast, have negatively impacted data and fixed telecom services in several countries of West Africa, including Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Cote de Ivoire, among others, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has said.
The cuts, according to a statement by the Director, Public Affairs, NCC, Reuben Muoka, occurred somewhere in Cote D’Ivoire and Senegal, with an attendant disruption in Portugal.
The statement informed that Cable companies – West African Cable System, WACS and African Coast to Europe, ACE in the West Coast route from Europe had experienced faults while SAT3 and MainOne had downtime.
It added that similar undersea cables providing traffic from Europe to the East Coast of Africa, like Seacom, Europe India Gateway, EIG, Asia-Africa-Europe 1, AAE1, were said to have been cut at some point around the Red Sea, resulting in degradation of services across on these routes.
“In Nigeria and other West African countries, Internet access and speed have experienced disruptions in the networks of service providers in the affected countries.
“Operators of these cables have commenced repairs already, and services are gradually being restored.
“They have promised to work round the clock to ensure that services are restored to the affected countries within the shortest possible time.
“It is important to bring this information to the knowledge of corporate and individual consumers on these services”, the statement said.
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