Nigerian Internet users may again begin to experience disruption from this week as the Nigerian Telecommunications PLC, NITEL, at the weekend, indicated a fault in the SAT-3 cable.
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According to NITEL, the fault was caused by a ship that maliciously anchored on the non-anchor zone of the high sea which caused a cut in the SAT3 submarine cable.

Nitel however noted that the effective use of its world class Automatic Identification System (AIS) , helped it and its SAT-3 Network Administrator in South Africa to detect the ship on the non-anchor zone.

NITEL’s AIS system is deployed at the NECOM house Lagos. It is a satellite based monitoring system that monitors the movement of ships and vessels around the SAT-3 cable line on the Atlantic Ocean.

Management of Nitel however said that after discovering the ship and possible damage it may do to the submarine cable, it immediately notified the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to redirect the ship from the non-anchor zone, but that NPA did not respond adequately and the cable eventually had a cut which resulted in a sudden service disruption since 2.am on Friday.

NITEL however said that it has been able to localize the fault at about 12KM from the SAT-3 Cable station inside the high sea and has . . .

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Nawaoo! Does this ur report have anytng t do wt satellite havng fault at all? SAT-3 s an under sea cable system and nt a satellite!

macjive01:

Nigerian Internet users may again begin to experience disruption from this week as the Nigerian Telecommunications PLC, NITEL, at the weekend, indicated a fault in the SAT-3 cable.

According to NITEL, the fault was caused by a ship that maliciously anchored on the non-anchor zone of the high sea which caused a cut in the SAT3 submarine cable.

Do you mean the undersea sat-3 cable is actually on the satellite? An a ship is anchored on the satellite in the sea?
Where is becomerich to draw the satellite picture for this?

Hahahahahahaha! That's Nitel's SAT 3 undersea cable! It's not a satellite.

@poster, have you been smoking your sh!t?

it is satellite guided.

macjive01:

it is satellite guided.

Try again.

Facepalm

Controlled by satellite hahahahaha.@ op SAT-3/WASC or South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable is a submarine communications cable linking Portugal and Spain to South Africa, with connections to several West African countries along the route. It forms part of the SAT-3/WASC/SAFE cable system, where the SAFE cable links South Africa to Asia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT-3/WASC - 48k -

It is an undersea cable that carries communications (voice, data), just like main 1 and Glo-1

Haaaa Haaaa, seek publicity by fire by force is not light-able advice-able.