principal telecommunications company of the gambia . it is a state company charged with the task of overseeing the provision of telecommunications and internet service in the country . in association with gamtel s internet company gamnet it has successfully built gambia s internet infrastructure . 1 the company was established in 1990 by an act of parliament as the single licensed telecommunications services provider in the country with its stock 99 % owned by the government of the gambia and the remaining 1 % owned by the gambia port authority . 2 in 1993 it commenced the task of creating the gambia radio & television service a company that operates the nation s radio and television industry . 3 gamtel currently employs over 1 000 people and its main offices are at gamtel house in banjul . 4 in 2007 gamtel was partially privatised with 50 % of its equity sold to spectrum group a telecommunications company of lebanon due to financial problems at gamtel . 5 the merger came to an end after only one year when gamtel declined to renew the spectrum management contract . 6 it is not clear if spectrum still owns a significant part of gamtel . references edit gamtel gamnet front page gamtel profile gamtel history gamtel contact us cipaco article gamtel close to bankruptcy 5 mar 2008 retrieved 24 jan 2009 gambia now gambia news article gamtel gamcel part company with spectrum retrieved 24 jan 2009 external links edit gambia telecommunications company gamtel official page gamcel mobile phone company department of state for communications information & information technology doscit allafrica the banjul daily observer article gambia new interim board for gamtel dated 2 dec 2008 retrieved 24 jan 2009 cipaco article the gambia gamtel paves the way to cyberspace 31 aug 2006 retrieved jan 24 2009 this gambia related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this african corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gamtel & oldid 703100556 categories companies of the gambiatelecommunications companies of africagovernment of the gambiacommunications in the gambiabanjulthe gambia stubsafrican company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 3 february 2016 at 14 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view