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Wire & Cable aSIa – March/april 2013
alCaTEl-luCENT and Main One
Cable Company ltd, have renewed
their marine maintenance contract for
Main One’s 7,000km submarine cable
system connecting Portugal to Nigeria.
Delivering high-speed bandwidth of
1.92Tbit/s, the cable gives access to
global information, data and markets in
Western africa.
as a member of the atlantic Private
Maintenance agreement (aPMa), Main
One will continue to manage and
maintain the network. under the service
level agreement, alcatel-lucent will
make available its maintenance vessels,
as well as specialist personnel for cable
repairs.
“To ensure the optimal network
availability for continuity and quality of
communications that our customers
demand, we rely on world class
technical support including
state-of-the-art cable ships capable of
delivering rapid response repair
services in any weather condition,” said
Bernard logan, Main One chief
commercial officer.
Philippe Dumont, head of
Alcatel-Lucent’s submarine network
activity, said: “Combined with the recent
redistribution of our maintenance vessels in the atlantic,
our Cape Verde-based cable ship will offer the shortest
possible mobilisation time for any repair operations off
West africa.”
alcatel-lucent currently maintains over 300,000km of
critical submarine cable infrastructure worldwide.
Alcatel-Lucent – France
Website:
Portugal to Nigeria marine maintenance renewed
P Contract is renewed between Alcatel-Lucent and Main One Cable Company
Faulty line resulted in power loss
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) reported
that a faulty 330kV power line, together with ongoing
work on its gas facility by Chevron Nigeria, have resulted
in the loss of 3,716MW of generated power.
The loss was responsible for a nationwide power supply
cut at the end of November, according to a statement by
Dave Ifabiyi, TCN’s public affairs assistant general
manager, adding that TCN engineers had worked hard to
rectify the problem and had restored the power supply
within the day.
The statement continued: “The Transmission Company
of Nigeria sincerely regrets the inconvenience caused by
the power outage and reassures all electricity consumers
of its determination to continue to strengthen the
transmission grid for the nation’s socio-economic
growth.”
Transmission Company of Nigeria – Nigeria
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