Gambia Telecommunications Company
| Gambia Telecommunications Company Ltd.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1984 |
| Seat | Banjul , Gambia |
| management | Gerardus van Eijk , managing director |
| Number of employees | approx. 1300 |
| Branch | telecommunications |
| Website | http://www.gamtel.gm |
The Gambia Telecommunications Company Ltd. , also known as Gamtel for short , is the semi-public telephone company with a cell phone subsidiary in the West African state of Gambia .
The state currently holds 99 percent, the remaining shares are held by the Gambia National Insurance Company (GNIC). The share capital of 60 million Dalasi (D) (about 2.4 million euros) in equities of 10-D face value divided. The approximately 1,300 employees generate 760 million D and 114 million D profit before taxes.
history
Gamtel was founded in 1984 as part of a takeover of the former Cable & Wireless PLC (Gambia) by the Gambian Ministry of Telecommunications with subsequent restructuring, with the support of the European Union (EU). Outdated Strowger rotary dials from the 1950s were replaced by digital switching technology - at that time, analog dialing systems were still in use at Deutsche Telekom . Thus, Gambia already had digital technology before Deutsche Telekom. Among other things, the EU donated 2,000 phones when it was founded. The German company Detecon supported the establishment .
Radio Gambia was taken over in 1995 and its own television station was set up in 1996 . The Société Générale provided the majority of the credit for this at the time. These two units were spun off in 2000 as an independent, state-owned company called Gambia Radio & Television Services (GRTS). A year later, the daughter Gamcel was founded.
At the time it was founded, Gamtel had approx. 2,400 telephone connections; after the implementation of larger expansion projects, it was over 50,000, of which 41,200 were used in 2004. Gamtel operates eleven of its own municipal branches and has twelve provincial branches, and Gamtel products can be purchased in over 230 privately operated telecenters. There are more than 260 payphones installed in the country (as of 2004).
In August 2007 it was announced that the government had acquired 50 percent of Gamtel and 50 percent of Gamcel in a Lebanese company called Spectrum Investment Group Ltd. has sold. At the same time rumors about the dissolution of the board of directors became known.
subsidiary company
The Gambia Telecommunications Cellular Company Ltd. , Gamcel for short, is the mobile phone subsidiary of Gamtel and was founded in 2001 . Prepaid cards are sold for the broad market and mobile phone contracts for companies and business people . The sending of the Short Message Service (SMS) is also possible in the GSM network (GSM 900 network).
The network supply is 90 percent guaranteed in the Greater Banjul Area and 45 percent in the rest of the country. The approximately 135 employees generate 273 million D and 82 million D profit before taxes. Cell phone coverage is currently expected to be nationwide in the country.
Sports
The GAMTEL Football Club is also represented in the highest Gambian football class, the GFA League First Division . They haven't won the championship yet.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Gambia Telecommunications Company ( Memento of the original dated May 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Gambia Divestiture Agency (2004)
- ↑ Half of GAMTEL AND GAMCEL Sold The Gambia Journal , August 3, 2007
