The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said repairs have commenced on damaged subsea cables that negatively impacted telecommunications services in several countries, including Nigeria.
The NCC Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka, confirmed
the development in a statement made available to New Telegraph 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 Main One 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, adding
that 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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