A significant service outage on Wednesday left hundreds of thousands of MTN Nigeria prospects unable to make calls or connect with the web. The outage, which lasted 4 hours, was attributable to a number of fiber cuts, the corporate stated in an announcement.
The telecom operator famous that the problem was observed within the afternoon and affected largely subscribers in Lagos.
“Our engineers are working laborious to resolve with companies regularly being restored in some areas,” Funso Aina, senior supervisor, Exterior Relations, MTN Nigeria, instructed TechCabal.
“A fiber optic cable lower refers to a whole or partial severing of the skinny glass fibers that make up a fiber optic cable,” says one publication. “These cables transmit knowledge over lengthy distances utilizing mild pulses.”
A significant reason for fibre cuts in cities like Lagos is highway development and vandalism
Fibre cuts are a relentless headache for operators within the telecom trade. The trade spent ₦14 billion to repair round 59,000 fibre cuts between 2022 and 2023, knowledge from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) present.