Early in the morning of Sunday June 18th, 2017, we experienced a fault on our submarine cable system, 3000KM offshore Portugal. The outage, the first of its kind in 7 years since our cable system came into operations, has caused disruptions in service to our international connectivity customers in West Africa. Supported by our cable maintenance arrangement […]
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Lagos (Nigeria), June 19, 2017 – Faced with the near exhaustion of Internet Protocol Version Four (IPV4) addresses and the possible Internet blockade looming, especially in Nigeria, MainOne has warned that failure by industry players in Nigeria’s ICT industry to urgently adopt Internet Protocol Version Six (IPV6) addresses may erode the country’s broadband development gains
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Lagos (Nigeria), June 19, 2017 – Public agencies including the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company (NMRC) joined MainOne to corroborate the impact of Information and Communications Technology on their operations. Speaking during a Business Engagement Session organized by MainOne for the Public Sector in
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Following the partnership of MainOne’s Data Center company, MDXi, with the Nigerian Internet Exchange, (IXPN) to improve national transit traffic in Nigeria, the company has recently announced a new interconnect service for carriers, enterprises and ISPs called Open-Connect. Open-Connect is a service that facilitates improved interconnection, collaboration and peering within the MDXi Lekki data center
West Africa’s premier Connectivity and Data Center Solutions Company, MainOne has reinforced its commitment to building out West Africa’s Data Center capacity at the Data Center Africa Summit taking place at the DataCloud Europe 2017 conference in Monaco this week. During the event, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Funke Opeke was nominated as one of 50 top
In recent times, digital technology which has continued to transform businesses with incredible speed has also exposed businesses to new threats. One of the greatest threats is Cyber security which has remained a major concern for enterprises and has persistently remained as cybercriminals continue to execute massive attacks on computer systems all over the world. A few weeks ago,
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Leading social innovation center, Co-Creation Hub and the Fate Foundation have urged Nigeria’s small businesses to collaborate and learn from each other to scale, stressing that aggregation of resources is the only way for effective growth for small and medium scale enterprises. This assertion was made by the representatives of these companies at the recent SME Business Clinic organized
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Experts at the International Telecoms Week conference in Chicago have highlighted the need to accelerate investment in Africa to facilitate the continent’s broadband data explosion. Based on the theme “Achieving A Connected Continent: Leading The Data Explosion Across Africa”, the expert panel session with participation from Google, Facebook, WIOCC, Liquid Telecom and Angola Cables discussed
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The Lagos State Government recently launched a free public Wi-Fi project at parks and gardens in Lagos in partnership with MainOne. The initiative which was kick-started at the popular Ndubisi Kanu Park, Alausa, Ikeja, is part of activities organized by the State Government to commemorate the 50 th year anniversary of the creation of the
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Though internet penetration in Africa is currently at 27.7%, lower than the world average of 49.6% and despite challenges the continent faces with the high cost of service delivery, lack of infrastructure, limited skills, retail mobile data traffic continues to grow at rates up to 145% year over year in Nigeria and shows no sign
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