MTN Nigeria has suffered more than 5,400 fibre optic cable cuts between January and July 2025, with road construction and vandalism emerging as the biggest threats to its infrastructure.
The company recorded 760 fibre cuts in July alone, bringing the seven-month total to 5,478 and causing widespread network disruptions. June saw the worst impact, with 1,016 incidents, the highest in the period.
MTN in a newsletter says this is just one of the many ripple effects of vandalism, forcing us to rebuild, reroute, and restore infrastructure to maintain a stable and reliable network.
The operator also apologised to customers affected by the outages.