On Wednesday, December 24, 2025, the public operator Gambian telecommunications company Gamtel announced the signing of an agreement of 50 million dollars with SYSROAD SA HOLDING, a system integrator Senegalese.

The public-private partnership (PPP) between Gamtel and SYSROAD SA HOLDING aims at the complete modernization of the Internet backbone (backbone network) national. The project is a transformational leap in capabilities. technological, with an upgrade of the core of the national network from 50 Gbps to 800 Gbps, representing a capacity increase of 1500%. This major expansion should make it possible to remove existing bottlenecks in the field of connectivity and to provide the country with a resilient infrastructure and efficient, essential to supporting a digital economy modern and competitive.

In a diagnostic study on the digital economy in The Gambia published in May 2021, the Mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"> World Bank ; mso-fareast-font-family:calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: “Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:fr; Mso-fareast-language:en-us; Mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"> indicated that the National fiber optic backbone is relatively well developed. Long of 1367 km in 2021, it covers an area where more than 90% of the population lives less than 10 km from a fiber node and remains managed exclusively by the company public.