Gateway Communications, a provider of African telecommunications services, is offering its customers, cut off by the ongoing NITEL strike, an alternative connectivity solution.

The strike by employees of NITEL (Nigerian Telecommunications) and its mobile communication arm, Mobile Telecom (Mtel) has left customers using SAT3 cables no connectivity. Businesses was unable to trade and additional congestion on other networks was experienced. Internet users and international corporate users have all been affected by the shut down of Nigeria's only international fibre optic cable. Gateway's IPJetDirect provides direct, high speed, low latency connections to the global internet backbone. Using satellite connectivity, IPJetDirect will allow its corporate customers and Nigerian operators to connect their mobile or fixed network to the web while guaranteeing high availability and a high quality connection through Gateway's world-class SLA. Gateway, the largest independent provider of satellite capacity in Africa, purchased additional C-Band capacity on MEASAT Satellite Systems' AFRICASAT-1 satellite in September 2008.

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