The project, one of the country's telecommunications major accomplishments in 2009, cost GAMTEL about 1.2 million euros.
It is a joint venture between GAMTEL and SONATEL in Senegal, conceived in 2008, a media dispatch from GAMTEL head office in Banjul, said Wednesday.
The release said the Cross Gambia Project, upon completion will extend the fibre from Dakar through Kaolack, Karang, Barra, Banjul, Serrekunda, Yundum, Brikama to Seleti in Casamance where it terminates on the SONATEL fibre network.
The release further said the project would provide an alternative link using fibre to the existing Basse in The Gambia and Velingara in Senegal fibre link which was implemented in 1996.
'The project consolidates GAMTEL and SONATEL by bilateral traffic; eliminating the serious traffic disruption experienced whenever the fibre is cut. It would a lso enable GAMTEL to increase internet capacity to meet national internet bandwidth requirement as and when required', the release stated.
Contract for the project was awarded to Alcatel Lucent, a French contractor based in France.
Banjul - Pana 10/02/2010
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