I do not potent to know the actual problem with the phones in Gambia
but it seems to me that the problems lies in Gambia not in USA. The
simple reason why I tend to believe this is that it does not matter
which carrier you use in the USA the problem is the same (not enough
circuits). Do you want to tell me that all these carriers decided to
decrease their number of circuits almost at the same time?
I think Gamtel needs to keep up with customer demand and new
technologies and not allow the gov't to plunder its meager resources.
YND
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From: Pope Pope <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:19:55 -0500
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Gambia Phones Working?
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. Gamtel has actually been getting a lot of
complaints about this and have asked the US Telephone carries to
increase
the number of circuits for The Gambia but they are telling them that,
since
they are not getting any complaints from their customers in the US,
they
dont see the need to increase the number of circuits for the Gambia.
Well,
bottomline is, this problem will continue unless we complain to the
various
carriers in the US about the difficulty of getting through to the
Gambia! I
would encourage everyone to give their Telephone service providers a
call,
otherwise, the situation will only get worse. Here are the customer
service
numbers for some of the major US telephone carriers. Thanks and happy
holidays
YN
AT&T: 1-800-222-0300
Verizon[Bell Atlantic+GTE]: 1-800-483-3737
MCI-Worlcom: 1-800-444-3333
Sprint: 1-888-723-8010
>From: Ahmad Scattred <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>Subject: Gambia Phones Working?
>Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 03:11:55 -0500
>
>Gambia-l:
>is there a problem with phone lines in The Gambia, or am I just
unlucky? I
>have tried so many times over the past couple of days to contact my
folks
>in
>Gunjur without success.
>
>Anyone list member residing in or around Gunjur? Please let me know!
>
>Thanks.
>Amadou Scattred Janneh
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