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- 24 Mar 2024
Nigeria Seeks Joint West Africa Regional Protection of Undersea Cables
Following recent undersea cable cuts that challenged connectivities in many countries in the West African region, Nigeria has called for a coordinated and multilateral approach by the region to…
- 16 Nov 2014
Undersea Cable Operators Make $1,650 Profit on Bandwidth
Major undersea cable companies in the country make as much as $1,650 profit on each Gigabyte of internet sold to telcos, internet service providers, banks, among others, suggesting that business is…
- 1 Mar 2010
Undersea Cables will Complement Local Ones- Jegede
The expected delivery of telecommunications services by two new undersea cables that are currently being laid across the sea coast of West Africa has been described as a development that will boost…
- 20 May 2013
Undersea Cables Crash Cost of Satellite Bandwidth by 50%
Avalanche of bandwidth from several undersea cables infrastructure to the country’s shores have crashed the cost of the commodity supplied through satellite technology by 50%, Nigeria…
- 24 Mar 2022
Google's Undersea Cable Equiano Berths in Togo
Google’s undersea cable Equiano has arrived in Togo, and will run from Lisbon in Portugal to Cape Town in South Africa along the African coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Google expects internet…
- 14 Mar 2024
Undersea Cable Cuts: NCC Announces Data, Voice Services Disruption Along African West Coast
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…
- 7 May 2012
Blessing & Curse of Undersea Cable Initiatives
Officially, Nigeria is swimming in an ocean of bandwidth with the avalanche of undersea cable systems each with landing points on the shores of the country but many Nigerians are still without a drop…
- 18 Mar 2024
Voice, Data Services Affected by Undersea Cable Cuts Restored - NCC
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced that the recent Undersea Cable Cuts that affected Voice, Data Services have now been restored. Aminu Maida, executive vice chairman, NCC …
- 21 Oct 2014
Google Approves 6,560-Mile US/Brazil Undersea Cable Link
Google will soon starting the laying of a 6,560-mile (10,557-kilometre) undersea cable to link the United States (US) and Brazil. According to Sky News, the fibre-optic cable will have the capacity…
- 30 Aug 2013
Glut Hits Undersea Cables, Capacity Wastes
Some 7 terabyte per second bandwidth by the four undersea cables’ infrastructure are unutilized; a classical case of starving in the midst of plent y , Nigeria CommuncationsWeek can now reveal.…
- 19 Dec 2021
Funke Opeke’s “Crazy” Idea to Lay MainOne’s Undersea Cable from Nigeria to Portugal Pays Off
In 2008 when Funke Opeke first proposed building the MainOne undersea cable from Portugal to Nigeria, which was acquired this week for $320-million, people called her “crazy.” According to FORBES…
- 16 Oct 2013
Undersea Cable Investments Hit $3Bn
Nigeria’s broadband revolution has a new impetus with the princely $100 million financing facility between MainOne, West Africa’s leading open access broadband provider and some banks to further…
- 27 May 2012
Undersea Cables and Nigeria’s Cloudy Mobile Ecosystem
“Plenty water for Africa…water for ordinary man to drink nko o…e nor dey.” Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the late Afrobeat music legend was apt in his hit track: ‘water nor get enemy’. There is so much water…
- 13 Jul 2010
Glo Test-runs Undersea Cable for Launch
The submarine optic fibre cable initiative of Globacom, Glo 1, is now ready for commissioning. Mohamed Jameel, Globacom's group chief operating officer, in a statement said the telecoms firm was…
- 17 Jan 2018
New Undersea Data Cables To Further grows Google ‘cloud
Google said on Tuesday that it is adding three new undersea data cables as it continues to bulk up its ability to power cloud services around the world. Ben Treynor Sloss, cloud platform vice…
- 30 Jun 2018
Undersea Cables Everywhere, No Internet for Nigerians
Many Nigerians are still without reliable, fast and affordable broadband internet services; as lack of carrier-neutral; “Right of Way” permits; frequent fibre cuts; and dearth of last mile…
- 23 Aug 2010
Competition in Undersea Cables Will Promote Reliability-Rudman
Mohammed Rudman is the managing director of Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN). In his over a decade experience in the information and communications technology, Rudman has worked as network…
- 4 Dec 2023
Maida Pledges Support Meta on Undersea Cable Initiative
Dr. Aminu Maida, Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said the support of the Commission awaits law-abiding investors…
- 8 Jun 2009
AfDB Approves $66M for MainOne Undersea Fibre Optic Cable Project
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved financing of USD 66 million to the Main One Cable Company for developing a submarine fibre optic cable connection…
- 8 Feb 2010
Operators Scrabble for MainOne Bandwidth
Ahead of the anticipated landing of MainOne submarine cable sometime in June this year, telecommunications operators are now scrabbling for bandwidth from the undersea cable, Nigeria…
- 19 Oct 2009
Main One Lays Fibre on Lagos, Accra Shores
Main One Cable Company has concluded the shore-end laying of its undersea fiber optic cables in Lagos and Accra. The shore-end cable laying is a critical intermediary procedure to install the…
- 15 Jun 2010
Nigeria, Others Prepare for Broadband Banquet
By the end of 2011, the entire continent of Africa will be connected to no fewer than nine undersea broadband cable initiatives that would serve as Africa’s innovation catalysts, Nigeria…
- 16 Feb 2014
SAT-3 Service Cut Leaves Internet Users Stranded
The growth in the Nigerian internet data market has suffered a major setback as SAT-3, the 15,000km undersea cable which lands in eight West African countries including Nigeria as it winds its way…
- 17 Mar 2024
Glo 1 Runs Smoothly as Others say Normal Internet Services May Take 5 Weeks
The internet outage which hit Nigeria and some other African countries may persist for up to five weeks, according to latest reports. One of the undersea cable companies affected by the service…
- 17 Aug 2010
Starcomms Moves to Enhance Izap with Fiber Optic Bandwidth
In order to further enhance internet service from Izap and 1X, Starcomms Plc. has subscribed to a new undersea cable linking Nigeria and the whole of West Africa to Europe. The implication of the new…
- 27 Dec 2012
Nigerians Starving in Broadband Feast- Opeke
Ms Funke Opeke, chief executive officer, Main One Cable Company, owners of Main One undersea cable system has said that the major setback to broadband penetration is lack of infrastructure and urged…
- 14 Mar 2024
Internet Outage: Glo 1 Up as other Networks Suffer Cable Failures
Massive internet outages have been reported in Nigeria following damage to international undersea cables supplying the country with connectivity. Telecommunications companies and a number of banks…
- 18 Oct 2015
Stakeholders Decry Low Capacity Utilization of Bandwidth
In spite of huge bandwidth capacity brought into the country by the various undersea cable infrastructure providers, a paltry 10 percent of the capacity is been demanded by subscribers of the…
- 26 Jan 2015
NITEL Loses $6m to SAT-3 Shut Down
Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), part owners of South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable (SAT-3), has lost some $6million in the last 18 months due to a cut at the Nigerian end…
- 28 Sept 2014
Internet Users Cope by Cursing in Sea of Bandwidth
The available bandwidth in Nigeria is potentially infinite. In fact, it is safer to say that Nigeria is swimming in an ocean of bandwidth with the avalanche of undersea cable systems, each with…