FOLLOWING Thursday’s undersea cable outages, Bayobab Group, an MTN Group affiliate, has stated that its operations have been successfully restored.
The telecom operator announced this in a statement today.
MTN stated that, despite the obstacles posed by cable disruptions, its subsidiary exhibited its capabilities by quickly regaining over 3 Terabits per second (Tbps) of capacity across its network.
According to the operator, the company has improved its network resilience by rerouting traffic efficiently and activating new cables, ensuring service continuity for its clients.
The statement reads, “Following the disruption on March 14, 2024, which affected data and voice services due to cuts in undersea fibre optics along the coasts of Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal, we are pleased to announce that services have now been restored to approximately 90 per cent of their peak utilization capacities.”
Earlier, the Chairman of Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria, Gbenga Adebayo, revealed that services would be fully restored today.
The chairman said, “From the progress we have seen, services will be restored completely tomorrow. We are almost there. There are many submarine cables routed to Nigeria. Some are routed through the Ivory Coast and Senegal.
Others are routed in other directions. So, that incident was an incident affecting that particular route.
“The other operators not following that route were not affected. So, they improvised an alternate route. It could have also been the other way, with other people routing their traffic the other way. It’s actually a common thing in network planning.”
