There have been fluctuations in data and voice calls across the country, following outages recorded by telecom operators in their networks, the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators (ALTON) has said.
The outages, ALTON said in a statement yesterday, still subsisted till Thursday night.
“Unfortunately, some of our member operators experienced outages on their networks on
Tuesday evening and this still subsists till the moment,” it said.
The operators said the outages had been compounded by power and other operations-related issues that had occurred across some major routes in Lagos metropolis and other states resulting in congestion of networks and impact on quality of services.
“At the moment, affected member operators are exploiting all avenues to remedy the situation. Engineers are making relentless effort round the clock to resolve issues, while in the interim, efforts are being made to optimize coverage utilising alternative solutions as a stop-gap solution to the most impacted locations”, the telecom companies said.
They appealed to subscribers to bear with them and be patient.
Meanwhile the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ibrahim Pantami has directed stakeholders in the telecom industry as well as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to furnish his office and the Office the National Security Adviser (ONSA) to the President with details of strategy communications infrastructures across the country.
The Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, who expressed the concern of the Commission on Monday said the development constitutes a breach to national security.
It was learnt that fibre infrastructures of MTN and Airtel and other carriers have been cut off by irate labourers who were engaged by some persons working on telecom infrastructures, but were denied their pay.
Maiduguri, the Borno state capital as well as Damaturu, the Yobe state capital and other cities and towns in the northeast have been cut off from communications to people within and outside the region as a result of the cut in the fibre facilities of telecom service providers.
