The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reverted to stakeholders with an update on Internet disruptions in the last 2 days.
The commission said that the operators of damaged international undersea cables that have caused Internet service disruption in Nigeria and other countries, have begun repair works and are gradually restoring services.
Giving insights into the service disruption that has led to poor data services for millions of internet users in the country, the Commission explained that the disruption was caused by a combination of cable cuts, resulting in equipment faults on the major undersea cables along the West African Coast.
“The cuts occurred somewhere in Cote d’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,” it stated.
The NCC added that similar undersea cables providing traffic from Europe to the East Coast of Africa, like Seacom, Europe India Gateway (EIG), Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE1), are said to have been cut at some point around the Red Sea, resulting in degradation of services across on these routes.
The government agency, however, noted that NCC that the cable operators promised to work round the clock to ensure that services are restored to the affected countries within the shortest possible time.