About one and a half decades ago, telecommunications industry in Nigeria was at its lowest ebb, but it has grown rapidly since then, due to the rising advancement of technology which has introduced various“means” of transmitting and receiving information which includes the use of Satellite, DSL(digital subscriber line), fibre optics and cables etc.; This study analyses and compares the Nigerian transatlantic fibre cables- the Main One cable, the Glo-1 cable, the SAT-3 cable and the West African Cable System (WACS) which have all contributed greatly to the development of the Nigerian telecommunications industry. The aim of this research  paper is to analyse and compare the four transatlantic fibre cables in Nigeria.