The West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC), the parent company of Open Access Data Centres (OADC), and one of the companies with the largest capacity is involved in the restoration of subsea cables that were damaged in the Atlantic Ocean penultimate week, yesterday, gave update on the level of restoration. WIOCC’s CEO, Mr Chris Wood, who gave the update via a virtual conference, said 35 networks across West African countries, Nigeria inclusive, have been restored to full capacity resilience, adding that it will take another four weeks to fully restore internet services to all network operators that are connected to the affected four submarine cables that came from Europe, with landing points along the West African coast.
According to him, it will cost a total of about $2 million to achieve full restoration to a single subsea cable, depending on the extent of the cut on the cable. This brings it to a total of about $8 million to fix the four submarine cables that were affected by the cut. Wood, however, said the owners of the affected cables would bear the cost of restoration of the individual subsea cables. The affected cables include MainOne Cable, West African Cable System (WACS), African Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable and SAT3 subsea cable systems. All four subsea cables came from Europe, and they all have landing points at the coast of West African countries, including Nigeria.
