GAMTEL FIBRE CABLE VANDALISED IN BUNDUNG

Gambia Telecommunication Company GAMTEL has been suffering from persistent fiber cable cuts over the past months. The vandalism has now cost the country's main telecommunication company millions of dalasi.

Recently there has been another case of fibre cable vandalism in Bundung. The scene was visited by GAMTEL's Managing Director and senior management staff and technicians to gauge the effects of damage, technical evaluations, and how to quickly restore services to their esteemed customers. Speaking to reporters the managing director Lamin A. Tunkara begins by apologizing to the affected customers for the interruptions of services they paid for describing it as an unfortunate scenario. He renewed his resolve to providing better and eeficient services to the costomers and promised that the cables cutswill be restored within a short time.

PRO Theresa Gomez, Core Network Director Ebrima Jammeh, and Director of Planning Kebba Ndow were all at the Bundung Nusrat Junction where the cable carrying over 800 customers was cut. Kebba Ndow call on the general public to be observent and report cases of cable vandalism when they see it. He said GAMTEL is not about Lamin Tunkara or any personality but the Gambia. He said it not in the interess of GAMTEL to see their services down. He said GAMTEL management is estrimely sorry for the breakdown in service delivery. Mr Ndow pointed out that there was in fact another fiber cable cuts on Wednesday morning which is affecting their major costomers like AFRICEL,GAMCE,COMIUM AND others.He said they have another team of technicians on their coming to see to it that those services are restore and functional.