About Us
Main One Cable Company Limited (‘Main One’) is the first submarine cable company offering open access, wholesale broadband capacity in West Africa. Main One is wholly African-owned with a vision to expand the much needed capacity on the African continent ensuring reduced costs of broadband communications across Africa. This vision has been realized in a submarine cable system that commenced operations in July 2010 with initial landing stations in Nigeria, Ghana and Portugal – connecting West Africa to the rest of the world via Portugal and the United Kingdom. Today, majority of the telecommunication operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Nigeria and Ghana are subscribing to broadband capacity on the Main One network.
Main One’s high capacity fibre network provides reliable and first class service delivery that can be measured against international standards ensuring broadband capacity is easily available and accessible to all within West Africa for regional and international operators as well as service providers. At Main One, we see the communication challenges that limit African businesses from being truly global players. Opportunities now exist to showcase Africa’s technical and innovative prowess by employing Main One to providing the infrastructure platform that will help make your businesses grow and be successful by enabling your business to be always available and reachable from anywhere in the world.
Expensive bandwidth with poor service quality has meant that the entire population of Africa has been largely isolated by a Digital Divide. Main One’s submarine cable network bridges this divide. The network is designed to ensure that a subscription to Main One’s services guarantees an automatic connection to the rest of the world, thus enabling our customers to maximize their global reach and presence. Our pledge to all our customers is that we will ensure they stay always connected in today’s global competitive landscape. We have successfully met this pledge by maintaining 100% network availability since our launch in July 2010.
At Main One we are relentless in our focus on seamless connectivity and high availability. We overcome all barriers to exceed expectations and so should you.
Our Achievements and Awards
- First private submarine cable landing licenses in Nigeria and Ghana
- First wholly African owned, privately funded, open access submarine cable in Africa
- Highest potential capacity system to date on the West Coast of Africa with upgrade opportunity to reach 4.96 Tbps
- First private cable to deliver services in West Africa – July 1, 2010
- Project Finance International: Awarded Main One the African Communications Deal of the Year 2009
- Submarine Cable system delivered on schedule and within budget to meet the needs of an underserved market. A first for Telecommunications in Africa
