The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is the regulator of telecom industry in Nigeria.

There are now eight subsea cables landed in Nigeria, including MainOne, SAT-3，GLO-2, Africa Coast to Europe Cable System (ACE), WACS, Equiano, 2Africa, and the Nigeria Cameroon Submarine Cable System (NCSCS).

The NCSCS connects Kribi in Cameroon to Lagos in Nigeria, it is owned by Cameroon Telecommunications (CAMTEL), in a partnership with MainOne to land the NCSCS cable at MainOne's Lagos Cable Landing Station.

In April 2022, Google's Equiano cable landed at OADC Lagos data centre and cable landing station, WIOCC is the landing party in Nigeria and the owner of the OADC Lagos data centre.  

In February 2024, MainOne landed the 2Africa cable in Akwa Ibom State, the first and only submarine cable system in Nigeria outside of Lagos. Earlier in the same month, Bayobab (formerly MTN GlobalConnect) landed the 2Africa cable in at the Mopo-Onibeju Lekki area of Lagos.

In addition to the cable landing station facilities, large scale data centres have been built in Lagos, Nigeria, including:

• MDXi Lagos, a carrier-neutral data center operated by MDXi, a subsidiary of MainOne, an Equinix company.
• OADC Lagos LOS1, operated by Open Access Data Centres platform company, a subsidiary of WIOCC, a carrier-neutral data center with up to 20MW load capacity, 3200 racks and 7,200 sqm.
• Rack Centre LGS 2, situated on a 20,000 sqm (215,280 sq ft) greenfield site, offering 3,240 sqm (34,875 sq ft) of rack space and up to 12MW load capacity.
• Rack Centre LGS 1: up to 1.5MW load capacity and 1,094 sqm rack space.
• Kasi Cloud Limited began construction of its hyperscale or Tier IV data centre, modelled after the Silicon Valley technology parks, in 2022. The facility, worth $250 million, is located in Lekki, Lagos, and is expected to go live in 2024

• WAF-IX, the West Africa Internet Exchange and the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), is hosted at the MDXi Lekki data center, with direct peering available through MainOne to Amsterdam, Ghana, and London Internet Exchanges. ,
• AF-CIX, the West Africa Interconnection Exchange, is hosted in Rack Centre Lagos and is the interconnection hub located in Lagos, Nigeria. AF-CIX is founded by Africans for Everyone. Ports are Free!, Cross Connection is Free!

Association of Submarine Cable Operators of Nigeria (ASCON)

The Association of Submarine Cable Operators of Nigeria (ASCON) was inaugurated on 10^th December 2018, aiming to create a national advocacy forum for Nigerian companies and administrations that own and/or operate submarine telecommunications cables landing in the country.

The Principal objective of the ASCON is to:

• Create a national advocacy forum for Nigerian companies and administrations that own and/or operate submarine telecommunications cables landing in the country.
• ASCON has been established to promote, encourage and assist in the protection of subsea cable infrastructure and ancillary equipment and facilities from marine activities, man-made and natural hazards.
• The association shall support and manage governmental and public/private sector collaboration, to ensure that the operations and maintenance of critical subsea communications assets are adequately protected and recognized in the development of rules and policies in Nigeria

Members, Board of Trustees of ASCON include

1. Funke Opeke (MD/CEO, MainOne;
2. Uche Osuji (MTN Nigeria, GM, Network Performance & Quality Assurance) and
3. Abdelraham Bashar (Deputy MD, ACE/Dolphine)
4. Innocent Nwokwocha – (nTel)

The Executive Council of ASCON is made up of:     

• Ifeloju Alakija- President (MainOne)
• Maxwell Eze – Vice President (MTN)
• Bolaji Mudashiru – General Secretary (ACE/Dolphin Telecom)
• Prosper Iredia Ogbagha – Publicity Secretary (Natcom SAT-3)