Customers
of ipNX, an Internet Service Provider in Nigeria, have experienced a
disruption of their Internet supply caused by a submarine cable cut from
one of Nigeria’s major Internet gateways, Glo-1.
This disruption will affect Internet access across the country as
South Atlantic 3 (SAT-3) service, provided by the Nigerian
Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and offered to end users by 21st
Century Technologies, is also affected.
Conglomerates including Total, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, all the banks
and several blue chip companies including telecommunications giants, MTN
Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria, Direct on PC (a broad band internet service
provider) Multi Links Telkom and a few others use SAT-3 link.
The incident occurred on July 8, 2012 in the Atlantic ocean, 9km off
the Nigerian coastline. Repairs on this cable are estimated to take
about 16 days (from July 8).
Some Service Providers have routed to other sources of international
Internet capacities and have continued to provide services, but have
however mentioned that at certain times of the day, Internet download
speeds may not be as fast as customers might hitherto be used to.
Culled: Dailytimes
Do we really have any good Internet Service Provider in Nigeria. The so called Internet Service Provider charge we Nigerian more than twice the the price of Internet services than their counter-part in other parts of the world.
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