WCA March 2013

Portugal to Nigeria marine maintenance renewed

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

P Contract is renewed between Alcatel-Lucent and Main One Cable Company

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 : www.alcatel-lucent.com 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 Website : www.tcnng.com

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