Submarine
Cable Repair May Take Two Weeks-Main One.
Submarine cable company, MainOne says it may take up to
two weeks to repair undersea cable cut which disrupted internet services in
Nigeria, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Senegal, and other West African and East African
countries since Thursday.
The company said the cause of the network outage was as a
result to a fault on the MainOne network.
The firm stated that Preliminary findings and further
investigations revealed that the fault occurred due to an external incident
that resulted in a cut on the submarine cable system, in the Atlantic Ocean
offshore Cote D’Ivoire, along the coast of West Africa.
Since Thursday, telecommunications subscribers and bank
users have been stranded as the disruption paralysed digital transactions and
internet communications.
In an update, the company said actions have been taken to
mobilise a vessel to expeditiously repair the cable in the deep ocean.
MainOne said restoration capacity for temporary relief
would be made available for customers.
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