The Electronic Communications and Postal Regulatory Authority (ARCEP) announced in a press release published on Monday, March 4, that Gabon will finalize its migration from the national eight-digit numbering plan to the nine-digit national numbering plan on April 6.

In 2019, Gabon initiated the migration to the nine-digit numbering plan with the launch of a test phase initially planned to last six months. But due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the pilot phase was finally extended. This time, the country plans to finalize its migration on 6 April. é According to the ' National Agency for Digital Infrastructures and French é Frequencies (ANINF), “to call locally, a fixed number from the Gabon Telecom network instead of the current 01, you will have to dial 011. To reach a Libertis or Moov number, you will have to dial 066, 062. For the Airtel operator with prefixes 04 and 07, it will now be necessary to dial 074 or 077.

ARCEP statistics mention that the number of telephone subscribers (mobile and fixed) increased from 2.58 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2013 to 3.09 million in the first quarter of 2013 to 3.09 million in the first quarter of 2023.