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    Undersea cable damage disrupts internet access in Nigeria

    Recent damage to the SAT-3 submarine cable that links Nigeria to the outside world has disrupted Internet and other services in the country.

    The damaged SAT-3 undersea cable runs from Portugal and Spain to South Africa, via West Africa.

    The resulting network outage (which is already being felt by a large number of internet subscribers in the country) is expected to last about 10 days, according to Suburban Telecoms, the nations primary internet capacity supplier.

    In a statement made available to THISDAY newspapers on thursday, 30 July 2009, chief technical officer (CTO), Suburban West Africa, Anil Verma, said: “This is only a temporary setback. Once the cable is restored, we will continue with our efforts of making available more internet bandwidth in Nigeria at a reasonable cost, as we have been doing over the last few years. It is unfortunate that the SAT3 submarine cable is currently the only active cable system available to West Africa."

    Read the full article on ITNewsAfrica.com

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