Lagos Subsea Cable Update

With the exception of 2Africa, which has two landings one of which is 500 kilometers South of Lagos, all Nigerian landings are along a 25 kilometer wide beach in an area called Lekki. I expect 2Africa and Equiano to dominate the transport market going forward with 2Africa finally live in February or early March. At that point I expect combined capacity of these two modern cables to push prices into the teens for 100G waves. The older subsea cables like WACS, ACE, MainOne, SAT3, and GLO-1 will struggle to compete because their per bit costs are much higher. These older cables have far less capacity, but similar operating expenses similar to 2Africa or Equiano. For example, the older cables probably pay as much if not more for maintenance given their higher fault frequency. They are more likely to experience outages due to shallower burial and riskier routing through the blue ocean than either Equiano or 2Africa. Inferior service, higher costs. Not a recipe for success. 

Unlike their predecessors both 2Africa and Equiano have on-net carrier neutral POPs. OADC is the Equiano. Medallion LOS20 and LOS21 are the two 2Africa hand off points. These two data centers are also known as Lekki I and II. I don't know if the 2Africa landing at Kwa Ibo has back haul to Lagos. If it does, I recommend ISPs consider it for diversity. Pricing should be similar.