MTN Nigeria, a leading telecommunications company, offers various services running on its new submarine cable - West African Cable System (WACS), Dailyindependentnig.com reports.

The 17, 200 km submarine cable system stretches from Europe through West Africa to South Africa. This service was made commercially available in May, 2012.

Now more Nigerian homes will have access to cheaper internet services.

The chief enterprise solutions officer of MTN Nigeria, Babatunde Osho, stated: “We are now in a position to offer large organizations and SMEs reliable high capacity connectivity for all their needs”.

A great advantage of MTN is the pre-existing extensive terrestrial Internet Protocol (IP) and broadband backbone infrastructure, enabling the company to deliver high grade and highly-available Internet capacity to anywhere in Nigeria.

The West African Cable System (WACS) is a consortium of 11 network operators across 15 countries with MTN being the single biggest investor in the group. WACS connects South Africa with the United Kingdom along the West Coast of Africa, landing in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Cape Verde as well as the Canary Islands, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

WACS has 15 landing stations along its route.

Subsea World News Staff , July 10, 2012