West and South African countries were thrown into pandemonium as the international undersea cables supplying the country with connectivity suffers serious Internet glitches.
Omonaijablog reports that the Internet failure and the outage mostly disrupted the services of telecommunications companies and a number of banks which rely on the affected cables for internet services.
According to the report, the damage affected major undersea cables near Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire and has led to internet downtime across West and South African countries.
Massive internet outages was reported in Nigeria who controls a larger percentage of the market shares in telecommunication and banking in West Africa following damage to international undersea cables supplying the country with connectivity.
The undersea cables affected are 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 not affected by the damage and has continued to operate normally. Data users, internet service providers and financial institutions which run on Glo 1 have continued to operate normally.
Industry analysts believe the sturdy nature and resilience of Glo 1 International Submarine Cable is the reason why the damage did not affect the cable.