“The anchor would have scraped along the sea floor as it drifted and damaged the cables,” Roderick Beck of United Cable Company told Bloomberg.
Beck also commented to Capacity Media on an option for traffic to transverse the West African coast. “I suspect everyone is trying to get their traffic to Nigeria or South Africa. Equiano only has two important points of presence on the West Coast, one in Nigeria and one in South Africa,” Roderick Beck, global network capacity sourcing at United Cable Company told Capacity.
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