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Internet solutions company celebrates 5 years in business

MainOne has the region’s highest lit capacity on its submarine cable, and is the #1 Internet transit provider in West Africa.

MainOne Founder and CEO, Funke Opeke

MainOne, a leading telecommunications and data services company in West Africa, today celebrated five years of leadership in transforming the region’s Internet landscape.

Speaking at a press conference organized to inform the media on the company’s five year milestone, CEO, Ms. Funke Opeke, discussed the evolution of the company, from initially starting as a submarine cable operator to becoming a full-service business-to-business communications services provider.

During her speech, Ms. Opeke noted that within its five years of operation, the company had made further investments for direct growth and partnerships, its fiber terrestrial network and POPs across the region and opened a Tier III Data Center, MDX-I, which was first of its kind for the region in Lagos earlier this year.

She explained that since inception, MainOne’s objective has been to bridge the digital divide in West Africa and to become the preferred provider of wholesale Internet services and enabler of online business within the region.

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According to her, the company has achieved this with services delivered to 7 countries in West Africa, and an impressive list of 500+ major telecom operators, ISPs, government agencies, large enterprises, and educational institutions in the region on its network.

Today, MainOne has the region’s highest lit capacity on its submarine cable, and is the #1 Internet transit provider in West Africa, interconnected with the London Internet Exchange (LINX), Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMIX), Nigerian Internet Exchange (IXPN) and the Ghanaian Internet Exchange (GIX), according to the company CEO.

In her words, “Despite the challenges we face in this region, predominantly a dearth and high cost of infrastructure, we are excited about the future prospects in the broadband market and are determined to remain consistent in our resolve to bridging the digital divide between Africa and the rest of the world".

In five years, MainOne has invested over $300m in infrastructure in WestAfrica towards improving connectivity and data center services in West Africa. Within this period, the company has ensured to its customers highly available and reliable services with zero downtime experienced on its core submarine cable infrastructure over its period of operations.

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