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GAMCEL – Gambia seeks partnership to scale up services

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The Gambia Telecommunications Cellular Company (GAMCEL) is seeking a private partner to provide better services for the people in The Gambia. The company has therefore launched a competitive bidding process for private partners to provide an updated GSM Mobile Network for 3G, 4G, and 5G services in order to accommodate a larger customer base and improve service delivery.

The Gambia Telecommunications Cellular Company (GAMCEL) is seeking a private partner to provide better services for the people in The Gambia. The company has therefore launched a competitive bidding process for private partners to provide an updated GSM Mobile Network for 3G, 4G, and 5G services in order to accommodate a larger customer base and improve service delivery.

 According to the bid put out by GAMCEEL, the project shall have the following components: to provide a core network for 4G and 5G and upgrade the current 3G core; provide a robust state-of-the-art billing system; provide an access network that constitutes 250 4G/3G embedded physical sites, and provide an access network that constitutes 25 5G physical sites.

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The proposed network modernisation and enhancement project is designed to address Gamcel’s network problems such as (coverage, access, and quality of services), network stability (transmission, backhaul, and power,) and business support system/billing (revenue assurance, seamless service delivery, value-added services- VAS and 3rd party integration) to meet the stakeholder’s expectation. The company invited interested firms to bid for the implementation of the mobile network modernisation project. A complete set of the bidding documents will be supplied to interested bidders upon payment of a non-refundable fee of USD 10, 000 to GAMCEL.