The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says repairs have commenced on damaged subsea cables that negatively impacted telecommunications services in several countries, including Nigeria.
Reuben Muoka, NCC’s director of public affairs, confirmed
the development in a statement on Thursday.
According to Muoka, multiple subsea cable cuts, which
occurred in Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal, with an attendant disruption in
Portugal, affected several West African countries.
Some of the affected countries were listed as Ghana,
Senegal, and Cote d’Ivoire.
“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,” NCC said.
“Cable companies – West African Cable System (WACS) and
African Coast to Europe (ACE) in the West Coast route from Europe have
experienced faults while SAT3 and MainOne have downtime.
“Similar undersea cables providing traffic from Europe to
the East Coast of Africa, like Seacom, Europe India Gateway (EIG),
Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE1), are 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.”
Muoka said services are gradually being restored.
He said the companies have promised to work round the clock
to ensure services are restored to the affected countries within the “shortest
possible time”.
Earlier on Thursday, MTN Group had confirmed the impact of
the damaged submarine cable on its services.
Rasheed Bolarinwa, president, Association of Corporate and
Marketing Communications Professionals of Banks in Nigeria (ACAMB), said the
situation also impacted connectivity across many banks.
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