According to Nigerian News paper the Vanguard "Africa’s telecommunication giant, Globacom, has received yet another boost in pursuit of its vision to be the biggest and best telecom operator in Africa with the winning of a licence to operate telecom services in Gambia.The licence, the sixth the company has so far won in Africa, comes barely four months after it won a similar licence in Senegal.Other countries where Globacom has telecom licences are Nigeria, Ghana, Benin Republic and Cote d’Ivoire. The company started operations in Nigeria in August, 2003, and...

According to the Daily Observer, "The government of The Gambia, through the department of state for Communication, Information and Information Technology (DOSCIIT), is poised to take The Gambia’s communication industry to a higher level, after a landmark signing of an MOU that would significantly transform the country’s telecommunications infrastructure, according to a press release obtained from DOSCIIT...Click

The proposed tariff increment by The Gambia Telecommunications Company (Gamtel) Limited has sparked intense public reaction in the country. And last Saturday, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) organized a public hearing at Alliance Franco-Gambienne along Kairaba Avenue to gauge public opinion

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The Taiwanese plenipotentiary to Banjul has disclosed plans by the Taiwanese computer manufacturing giant, Asus, to explore possibilities of stretching out its tentacles to the shores of The Gambia.Dr Patrick Chang made these remarks recently during the presentation of scholarships to 10 students and five sets of Asus computers to the University of The Gambia (UTG) at the Office of the...Click

AMMAN - The National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) will help upgrade the electricity sector in Gambia under a $310,000 agreement with the National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC).NEPCO Director General Ahmad Hiasat, who signed the deal with NAWEC Managing Director Momodou Jallow, said ...Read
 

The Gambian government has defended its recent sale of a 50% controlling stake in national fixed line operator Gambia Telecommunications Company Ltd (GamTel) and its mobile subsidiary Gamcel, after critics attacked the deal for a lack of transparency and apparent flouting of public sector business law. A statement from the Department of State for Communication, Information & Technology (DOSCIT) attributed the surprise sale, which it agreed on 1 August with little-known Lebanese company Spectrum Group, to an urgent need to address ...Read
 

Gambian newspaper The Point reports that the country’s government has agreed to sell 50% of national incumbent fixed line operator GamTel, owner of GSM operator Gamcel, to a Lebanese-owned company called Spectrum. The sale of the government’s stake is said by the paper’s unnamed source to have taken place with effect from 1 August 2007. As part of the terms of the sale, Spectrum has reportedly agreed to install a management team, to work alongside officials of the fixed line and mobile units. German consultancy DeTeCon is reported to have won the management contract, although the details have not been confirmed by the state or the companies in question.
 

The Gambia has announced the creation of its first science academy, which will address the shortage of scientists in the country.The academy will prepare students at primary and secondary level for university-level science, technology...Read
 

A group from The Gambia is to be given a tour of a state-of-the-art waste processing facility in Wiltshire.Brian Twigger, chair of the Wiltshire Waste Partnership, organised the trip for 15 visitors from Gunjur, which is twinned with Marlborough.He said: "I have been over to The Gambia and lived...Read

 

The Gambia and Venezuela have finalised a five-year agreement to cooperate on improving research and development in agriculture, health, and energy sectors in the African country.The agreement, finalised during the Gambian president's tour of South America last month, will see Venezuela providing funds, technicians and researchers to the Gambia, and encourage cooperation between...Read
 

President Yahya Jammeh has launched Comium Gambia, a subsidiary of Luxembourg-based global telecommunication giant the Comium Group at a ceremony held at its headquarters along Kairaba Avenue.The launch of The Gambia's latest state-of-the-art 2.5G GSM mobile network came a day after the birthday of the Gambian leader, which coincided with the African Liberation Day on May 25. It is the...Read
 

Taipei, Oct. 9 (CNA) Taiwan has decided to help Gambia nurture high-tech specialists to pave the way for the African country to establish its own "Silicon Valley, " an academic source said Monday.

Under financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) , the National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) will be sponsoring the program starting next August by offering four-year university education to 25 Gambian citizens. ...Read
 

Will this open the way for broadband in the Gambia?
As UkGambians exclusively revealed a couple of months back in an exclusive interview with Alex Da Costa, Head of Media & Information Technology during the AU-SUMMIT, a third mobile service provider will be launched early next year.What will this positive news bring to the citizens of The Gambia?...Read
 

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