Nigerians and many across West Africa brace for potentially sluggish internet as MainOne, a leading provider of submarine cable systems, revealed repairs on their damaged cable could take up to five weeks.
The announcement came on Friday after the company identified a fault on its network on Thursday, attributing it to an external incident causing a cut along the West African coast.
MainOne outlined the repair process, which includes mobilizing a specialized vessel to retrieve parts from Europe before heading to the fault location off the coast of Côte d’Ivoire for repairs. The entire process is estimated to take approximately five weeks to complete.
