GS Telecom was founded in 1994 when it played a key role in Nigeria bringing NITEL and five international oil companies together to develop a US$10 million private TDMA satellite network. The company expanded to the rest of Africa from 1997.

The GS Telecom Group of companies is a leading supplier of telecommunications services in Africa. GS Telecom provides one-stop shop services for corporate networks and internet access throughout the continent and to the rest of the world as well as wholesale services to GSM and wireless operators. The company has offices in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa and Angola, and engineers based in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone. The combined companies are currently providing service in over 37 countries across the continent.

GS Telecom is an ISO9001-2000 company certified by DQS (German Standards Institute).
GS Telecom is a licensed operator in Nigeria, Mozambique, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire , Ghana and South Africa. The company also has licensing agreements to provide services in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They offer turnkey solutions including provision of equipment, licensing, installation, operation and maintenance of networks across the African continent.

The company now provides network services and maintenance for over 200 companies including Total, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, Celtel, MTN, Millicom, DHL, BT-Infonet/Nestle, Infonet/Reckitt Benckeiser and KLM, Orange, Grinaker-LTA Construction, Barclays, African Banking Corporation, Citigroup and 20 major regional banks, Barrick Gold Corporation, Newmont Ghana Gold, Guinness, Coca-Cola and the Australian gold mining company Resolute.
GS Telecom introduced a new IP-based service three years ago, AfricaConnect, using iDirect VSAT technology, and now has over 650 branches of banks, corporations, natural resources companies, NGOs and others connected across the continent. The company has AfricaConnect hubs installed in the United Kingdom (2), Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Mozambique and soon, Angola and South Africa.

Additionally GS Telecom have over 100 satellite circuits within Africa and connecting Africa to the world, and over 200 wireless internet clients in major cities in Nigeria, Ghana and Mozambique. The company is investing to provide IP-VPN services using MPLS technology on fiber-optic networks. This AfricaMPLSconnect service was launched in April 2007.