Gambia
3.3 Gambia Additional Service Providers

Gambia Additional Service Providers: Vehicle Rental, Taxi Companies, Freight Forwarding Agents, Handling Equipment, Power Generation and ISPs

For information on Gambia Additional Service Provider contact details, please see the following link: 

4.8 Gambia Additional Service Provision Contact List

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

GAMTEL holds the only national gateway and all ISPs lease bandwidth and route their traffic through this Gateway.  The Total Internet Bandwidth is 100MB.  100MB of this is leased through SONATEL, the main Telecoms Company in Senegal with connection to the undersea cable and the other 30MB is through satellite. The GAMTEL-SONATEL connection is through a a fibre link to Dakar via Basse (Gambia) and Wellingara (Senegal). A backup microwave link from Banjul to Kaolack and fibre from Kaolack to Dakar is in place.
The National backbone bandwidth (i.e., internet speed from all Points of Presence, PoPs to the Gateway) has a capacity of 2MB. In order to effectively rationalize/optimize the use of the International bandwidth, efforts are far advanced to complete the installation of MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) which will increase the national backbone bandwidth to 34MB. This is expected to be completed by June 2009.

Internet Service Providers

Are there ISPs available?

(Yes / No)

Yes

Private or Government

1 Governement and 3 Private: GAMTEL, QUANTUMNET CO. LTD, UNIQUES SOLUTIONS CO. LTD, NETPAGE CO. LTD  

Dial-up only (Yes / No)

No

Approximate Rates

Dial-up: 56Kb  for Internet Services (Dial Up)

 

Broadband: 128Kb  for Internet Services (Wireless) 256Kb for VPN services

 

Max leasable ‘dedicated’ bandwidth

2MB  for Internet Services 4MB for VPN services

For information on Gambia Additional Service Provider contact details, please see the following link: 

4.8 Gambia Additional Service Provision Contact List

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