By Charles Gbayor and Nathinal Natty
FISH TOWN, Liberia- Orange Liberia has launched a 4G/LTE site in Fish Town, River Gee County.
The opening of the new site just days ago is in furtherance of a target set by Orange-Liberia management who assured Liberians that Orange would invest a significant portion of its profits to providing quality and cutting edge telecommunications to the Liberian people according to GSM company regional manager.
With the 4G/LTE network, customers will be able to do video calls, doctors will now diagnose illnesses from halfway around the world, and people in Fish Town could enroll in Masters and PHD programs in the United States, Europe and other parts of the World online.
Therefore, people in Fish Town, River Gee County will now be able to connect with the world for business, E–commerce, E-education, E-health and more without having to leave their homes.
In response, officials of the county applauded Orange for its efforts.
They noted that the company, Orange had inherited had always stood with Liberians as the “people’s GSM company” and therefore were happy to hear that Orange would continue this path on investing in the Liberian people.
“Orange has always been there for us and this is another example of Orange going the extra mile for us people of River Gee,” authority said.
However, what left mainly to boost the actual work of the GSM company is to have a store in the county for available services to include wholesale of scratch cards and phones, monies transportation, retriever of sim cards, sitting of sim cards pin among others.
However, Orange Liberia is the second largest mobile network operator in Liberia.
The company was founded in 2003 as Cellcom Telecommunications Ltd, backed by US-based private international investment firm YCF Group.
Cellcom was wholely acquired by French-multinational Orange Group (via its Orange Cote d’Ivoire business unit) but in early 2016, the rebranding to Orange Liberia started and was completed by May 2017.
The company has provided 2G GSM services over the 900 and 1800 MHz bands since September 2004, and 3G UMTS over B1 (2100 MHz) since June 2012. 3G data services were upgraded to DC-HSPA+ in May 2013.
Orange Liberia launched the country’s first 4G LTE services in April 2016 over the B3 (1800 MHz) band, providing 150 Mbps peak DL data rates.