Staying Online: Glo’s Uninterrupted Service Amidst a Sea of Internet Outage
The internet outage affecting Nigeria and several other African countries is expected to persist for up to five weeks, recent reports indicate.
An update provided yesterday by MainOne, one of the undersea cable companies experiencing service disruptions, suggests that it may take two to three weeks to resolve the issue. The company’s investigation pinpointed the fault to an external incident, leading to a cut in the submarine cable system in the ocean.
MainOne detailed that rectifying the fault, which includes retrieving necessary spares for the repair, “sailing to the fault location for the repair work might take one to two weeks.
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Additionally, approximately two to three weeks of transit time may be required for the vessel to collect the spares and journey from Europe to West Africa once the vessel is mobilised.”
Massive internet outages in Nigeria have followed the damage to international undersea cables providing connectivity. This disruption has impacted telecommunications companies and several banks that depend on the affected cables for internet services.
The damage, occurring near Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, has disrupted internet services across West and South African countries, affecting major undersea cables including the West Africa Cable System (WACS), the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE), MainOne, and SAT3.
However, Glo 1, owned by Nigeria’s leading digital services company Globacom, was unaffected by the damage and continues to function as normal.
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Data users, internet service providers, and financial institutions relying on Glo 1 have experienced uninterrupted service.
Industry analysts attribute the uninterrupted service of Glo 1 International Submarine Cable to its robust and resilient design, sparing it from the damage impacting other cables.
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