You sound very definite on the reasons for the difficulty and frustration recently (last six months)
experienced by Gambians abroad in getting to The Gambia by phone. You can be sure that this is not limited to
the United States.
The Gambia used to the easiest country to call from our part of the world, the Middle east. Lately, it is not
unusual to fail to get a connection after a whole day of trying. There must some other reason/s than that
peculiar to the United States.

Pope Pope wrote:

> G'Lers
> The phone lines in the Gambia are OK, the problem is that the major
> Telephone carriers in the US have limited the number of dedicated  circuits
> for the Gambia from the US.

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