Internet blackout looms in Nigeria as cable firm declares “Force Majure”

shakirudeen taiwo

June 22, 2017 9:45 AM

The company, however, revealed that the repair works will take 14 days (2 weeks) before completion, but it will be providing services to its customers through the limited restoration capacity of its facilities.

Mrs Funke Opeke, Managing Director of MainOne Cable

One of the leading wholesale internet providers in Africa, MainOne Cable has declared a “Force Majure” on Tuesday, June 21, 2017, following a fault in the company’s submarine cable system.

The company which communicated this position in a statement released on Tuesday noted that it has already mobilised a repair vessel from France early on Monday, June 20, 2017, towards recovering the affected sections of the submarine cable laid in the Atlantic Ocean and other necessary repairs.

“Early in the morning of Sunday, June 18th, 2017, we experienced a fault on our submarine cable system, 3000KM offshore Portugal.”

“The outage, the first of its kind in 7 years since our cable system came into operations, has caused disruptions in service to our international connectivity customers in West Africa,” the company said.

The company further revealed that the repairs would be for 14 days (2 weeks), while the causes of this disruption in service are beyond their control but it will ensure customers are offered needed service within the existing restoration capacity of the company.

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“Whilst this is an event of Force Majeure, being beyond our control in the ordinary and normal course of business, we have in the interim, made available existing restoration capacity and have secured additional capacity to offer temporary relief to our customers, where feasible.” “We will continue to provide updates on the progress of the repair works and we assure our customers that all hands are on deck to fully restore all services and the MainOne quality that they have come to rely on.”

MainOne’s submarine cable system was launched in 2010, making the second after Globacom, and has been providing Internet services to major telecom companies, Internet service providers (ISPs), government agencies and corporate organisations in Nigeria, and other West African countries.

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