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By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. November 1 1, 2012: Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer, Main One Cable Company, has warned that the current underutilisation of new submarine fibre optic cables with uptake of only about 5 per cent will undermine technology growth in the economy. Opeke, who spoke at a cloud computing forum held recently [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. October 8, 2012: Main One Cable Company has connected its cable network to the London Internet Exchange Point (LINX), an edge the West African undersea optical fibre company says will boost transmission across the sub-region. LINX is one of the largest internet exchange points in the world with over 430 [...]
“We seem to forget that the average Nigerian university graduate in 2012 lacks meaningful access to the Internet and cannot do all the things the earlier panelists from the UK said his son could do online. Yet we have cables on our shore to provide all the access we need that are less than 5% [...]
By Abbas Bolanle Lagos. May 22, 2012. Main One Cable Company, owners of privately-owned submarine network cable in West Africa, have announced a transmission capacity upgrade on the fibre optic cable to complement growing demand across the sub-region. Main One says the upgrade of capacity on the submarine fibre optic cable system with an additional [...]
“The huge dichotomy between the voice telephony and data segments is evident when statistics are presented. With tele-density in the country growing from below 2% in 2001 to about 65% within 10 years, the broadband segment is yet to catchup. Recent statistics show that there are over 45 million internet users in Nigeria, which on [...]
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