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Financial Challenges Keep GAMCEL Out of First Nine-Digit Migration Phase

The Gambia Telecommunications Cellular Company Limited (GAMCEL)'s financial difficulties have emerged as a key reason the state-owned telecommunications operator was excluded from the first phase of the country’s migration from seven-digit to nine-digit telephone numbers, despite initial explanations that the delay was primarily due to “timing and technical readiness”.

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