Internet Outage Caused By Undersea Cable Damage Affects Nigeria, Ghana, others
There have been a number of cable cuts resulting in equipment faults occurring on the major undersea cables along the West African coast, negatively affecting data and fixed telecom services in several countries in the region, including Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire and several others.
The cuts occurred somewhere in Cote de’Ivoire and Senegal, with an attendant disruption in Portugal.
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.
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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.
Cable operators 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.
Both corporate and individual consumers need to be aware of these services.
