Gambia: Gamtel Signs D5 Million Contract With MRC

The Gambia Telecommunications Company (Gamtel) on Wednesday signed a Fiber Optic Data Service with the Medical Research Council (MRC) at the MRC head office in Fajara.

Speaking at the ceremony, Professor Tumani Corrah, the unit director of MRC welcomed all and sundry to the MRC on the important occasion, noting that during his early days in the country, the only means of communication to their staff in Basse was through GPTC (Gambia Public Transportation Corporation). He noted that on the 1st April 1984, Gamtel changed the fate of communication in the country.

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