Main One’s Project Room gives you insight into the Project, our major milestones and our progress vis-à-vis these milestones. Get excited by the pictures, get involved with the stories, but more importantly get ready to enjoy the arrival of Terabit per second technology to the main street.

The Main One cable project is designed in two phases, with Phase 1 landing in May 2010 and becoming Ready For Service (RFS) in July 2010. Phase 2 is planned to be initiated for delivery within months of this.

Main One lands in the following countries:



The Main One Project delivers High Speed Bandwidth of 1.92Tb/s to the West African Shores achieving many commercial firsts. In the race to be the first of its kind on the West Coast of Africa, Main One’s aggressive pursuit of its goals means it has accomplished significantly more than other similar initiatives, even those which may have been initiated before it.


PROJECT COSTS
The Main One project cost for a cable system will consist of 14,000 kilometers of sub-marine fibre optic cabling based on a trunk and branch and with interconnection in Portugal to cable systems serving other geographies i.e. Europe, the Americas and Asia, is USD 400 million (Four Hundred Million dollars).
The initial deployment of Phase 1 will connect Portugal to Nigeria, with a landing station in Ghana and will cost more than USD 240 million (Two Hundred and Forty Million dollars). After completion of Phase 1, the Company plans to expand the network to connect South Africa, Angola, Gabon, Senegal, DRC, Cote D’Ivoire and Morocco.

PHASE 1 COMPLETED

Main One has completed and commissioned it’s 1,920 Gbps, 7000 kilometres long, submarine fibre optic cable system linking West Africa to Europe, to deliver unprecedented broadband capacity to West Africa, more than ten times what is currently available

The project  which had a 24-months build time line was completed and ready for service in July 2010.