Equipment fault, undersea cable destruction disrupt data, voice services along African West Coast

There was a major undersea cable cut, faulty equipment that is responsible for data and voice disruptions in the entire West African Coast. This has seriously hampered data and fixed telecommunication services in several West African countries.

The West African countries currently experiencing unstable telecom services are, Nigerian, Ghana, Ivory Coasrt, Senegal, Cotede voire, Benin Republic and others.

Reports said, the undersea cable was cut 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.

In the same vein, other cables which seems to have been cut in the Red Sea resulting in degrading services across several routes are Seacom, Europe India Gateway (EIG), Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE1), and others.

It was however, gathered that operators of these cables have started repairs and within the time of repairs services and signals of service providers and subscribers would continue to be on and off until it is gradually restored.

In Nigeria and other West African countries, where major service providers like MTN, Glo, Airtel, Etisalat and others operate, internet services have been the worst as access and speed have been disrupted.