Nigerian-owned Mainstreet Technologies’ Main One Cable will connect countries in Africa to those in Europe, becoming the second competitive cable (after the Glo-1 Cable) in West Africa by June 2010.
The Main One Cable Company has concluded the shore-end laying of its undersea fibre optic cables in Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana respectively. The shore-end cable laying is a critical intermediary procedure to install the undersea cables on the shores of countries in which the cable system is expected to berth.This in preparation for the end-to-end laying of the full stretch of the fibre optic cable from its origin in Portugal.
The Main One Cable will land in five places in Africa, including Nigeria and Ghana.
Source(s): CNBC Africa
