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Chalana Perera

West Africa looses and regains internet connection - 0 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09 - Cached
  • A cable fault that caused a major blackout
  • causing severe problems for its banking sector, government and mobile phone networks.
  • Services were severely disrupted or knocked out in Togo, Niger and Benin.
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  • Countries had to either reroute traffic overland or use expensive satellite links to maintain connectivity.
  • Nigeria was particularly badly hit because around 70% of its bandwidth is routed through neighbouring Benin.
  • SAT-3 cable lands in eight West African countries as it winds its way between Europe and South Africa.
  • by Suburban Telecom, was set up to bypass Nigeria's principal telecoms operator Nitel which runs the SAT-3 branch cable which lands in Nigeria.
Rafae Wathra

Nigeria Islamic court 'bans Twitter feed' (BBC News) - 2 views

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shared by Rafae Wathra on 13 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Rafae Wathra on 13 Apr 10
     
    A rights group can no longer host debates on twitter because of the court.
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