EB:
Absolute rubbish.  What do you mean by people don't understand telecommunication stuff?  You speak as if everyone elese is the idiot but you.  Don't you think this stance is a bit misguided.

Gai:
We have been fed the rubbish about the carriers not having enough international circuits linking to The Gambia?  There are many ways of circuiting to different foreign companies of which undersea cables across the Atlantic and Satellite links are predominant.  The call is typically routed through a local exchange then an international gateway.  At this point, it is is transmitted using one of the above methods to an international country.   Please note that the phone card companies do not own these lines.  They simply lease space on them. One VoicePath with a capacity of 133,00 simultaneous conversations only cost 600,000 dollars. After the transmission, the call has to go through the destined country's gateway.  I have a suspicion that this is where the problem lies  simply because gambians abroad simply cannot inundate telephone traffic over an international line destined for The Gambia.

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