It has been established that the disruption in internet service on Thursday, March 14, 2024 was caused by damage to at least three subsea cables off the West Coast of Africa which affected internet services in Nigeria, Ghana and other countries across the continent.
Telecommunications subscribers and bank users were stranded for hours as the disruption paralysed digital transations and internet communications.
MTN Nigeria explained that the network outage experienced by its subscribers was as a result of damage to international undersea cables across East & West Africa.
According to one of the world’s leading financial news organisations, Bloomberg, the West Africa Cable System, MainOne and ACE sea cables — arteries for telecommunications data — were all affected on Thursday.
According to data from internet analysis firms including NetBlocks, Kentik and Cloudflare, the cut triggered outages and connectivity issues for mobile operators and internet service providers across the West African sub-region.