Euro-Africa submarine cable Portugal to Nigeria and Ghana goes live

The 7000km fibre optic Main One Cable runs

from Portugal to Nigeria and Ghana

and also branches out to Morocco, the Canary Islands, Senegal and Ivory Coast. The Main One Cable Company says it delivers more than 10 times the broadband capacity of the South Atlantic Terminal (SAT-3), Nigeria’s sole existing undersea cable, and 20 times the entire satellite capacity of sub-Saharan Africa.

source: sowetan.co.za