Since the inception of MainOne the company has received several accolades:
- Built and owns the first wholly African privately funded licensed submarine cable along the West African coastline.
- First private submarine cable landing licenses in Nigerian and Ghana.
- First private cable to deliver services in West Africa.
- Highest lit capacity in West Africa to date with upgradeability to reach 4.96 Tbps
- Has the largest IP NGN network deployed in West Africa on DWDM systems for Internet Transit – Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS 3).
- 1.96 Terabits/sec backplane (backbone) Carrier grade routing system.
- 10G peering with the London Internet Exchange (LINX), Nigerian Internet Exchange (IXPN) and Ghanaian Internet Exchange (GIX).
- Operates the most reliable terrestrial fibre (encased 20m deep in soil) in Lagos, and our submarine Cable system which has manifested a 100% uptime.
- Global Connectivity and direct delivery through various upstream partners –Tata, Global Crossing, Level 3, Seacom, Epsilon, AT&T and Abovenet.
- Project Finance International: Awarded MainOne the African Communications Deal of the Year 2009
- Built and Operates premier Tier 3 data Centers in Nigeria and Ghana.