KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Cadres of Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led Communist Party of Nepal has torched around two dozens of telephone towers of Ncell and Nepal Telecom in different parts of the country.

According to Police, 22 telephone towers of Ncell and one telephone tower of Nepal Telecom have been torched yesterday evening. Most of the telephone towers were found torched by burning jute sacks, said police.

“The Biplav-led group had torched and vandalized the telephone towers in various parts of the country,” said Spokesperson of Nepal Police, Deputy Inspector General, Bishworaj Pokharel.

“A person has been arrested in connection with his involvement in Arghakhanchi incident.”

Twenty-two Ncell towers of different places of Kapilvastu, Kailali, Jhapa, Dadeldhura, Doti, Dhading, Parbat, Nawalparasi (East), Panchthar, Banke, Baglung, Morang, Myagdi, Rupandehi, Lalitpur, Sindhupalchowk, Achham, Salyan and Makawanpur districts were torched and damaged.

Similarly, a telephone tower of Nepal Telecom at Paneni municipality-5 in Arghakhanchi district was set on fire, said police.

The Biplav group had also bombed about 15 offices Ncell in February 23, in which a retired Singapore police officer Sim Prasad Gurung, 49 was killed and Pratikshya Khaka, 26, and Urusha Manandhar, 25 were injured.

Meanwhile, a bomb disposal team of the Nepal Army defused a pressure cooker bomb in Lalitpur district on Wednesday night.

Biplav-led group had called strike (banda) in 21 different districts on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, July 10: Nepal Telecom is devising special measure in disseminating early warning information on possible natural disaster to reduce loss of lives and properties from flood and landslide occurring in different parts of the country.

Nepal Telecom in collaboration with the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology has been sending security alert texts via cellular phone to the people of natural disaster-prone areas.

Recently the Telecom has suggested denizens residing in the vulnerable areas to remain cautious of rising water currents in the nearby rivers across the country.

Early warning information will be shared to the targeted people keeping in mind the possible incidents of landslides in hilly area and inundation in Terai with the rise in rainfalls.

Precautionary mobile messages are being delivered to the vulnerable population on potential climate hazards as part of the collaboration between NTC and the department.

A mechanism has been set to disseminate prior-information related to disaster to the NTC users residing in the vicinity of Mahakali, western Rapti, Kankai, Babi, Karnali, Narayani, Bagmati, Koshi rivers as well as in mountainous areas.

NTC has been providing details of its users of the vulnerable areas to the department for the purpose of early warning information flow.

The department is sending bulk SMS to the people of possible disaster-hit areas prior to the occurrence of natural calamities. The intervention is delivered to reduce potential loss of lives and properties. RSS

KATHMANDU, Feb 5: Nepal Telecom (NT) has introduced the roaming service for pre-paid mobile also.

Prior to this, the service was available only in post-paid mobile phones. In case of outside the country, the pre-paid mobile roaming service will be available in India and China right from today.

The NC has begun the ‘out-bound roaming’ service. The prepaid mobile phone users are entitled to the new service without deposits. Prior to this, the post-paid mobile phone users had to deposit Rs 10,000 to have an access to this service. According to NT managing director Dilliram Adhikari said the company plans to further diversify its services and the new decision was of part of such plan.

Similarly, the company is to provide two GB data per month in a 900 package for GSM postpaid customers. The scheme shall come into effect from today.

Similarly, new customers of GSM postpaid mobile phones to be registered from February 6 to February 20 will be given free one GB ‘all time’ data and 100-minute phone calls per month till three months.

Under the touristic package, five GB data, 50 minutes’ phone calls within the NT network, 50 SMS and a 100-minute international call services are available at Rs 500. The ceiling of these services is double in the package of Rs 1,000. The schemes were announced on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the NT.

NT MAKES PROFIT OF RS 45 BILLION
The company in the fiscal year 2074/75 BS (2017-18), earned a profit of Rs 45.27 billion and the figure was Rs 44.59 billion in the previous fiscal year. Last fiscal year, company’s net profit increased by 13.73 percent compared to the previous year and touched Rs 17.48 billion. Company’s income in per unit share was increased and reached 116.56 percent in that period.

The company has a significant contribution to the government revenue as it paid over Rs 26.20 billion in total (as tax and non-tax category) to the government in the fiscal year 2017-18. The number of its customers till last mid-December has reached 21,098,000. The figure was 17,600,000 in the previous fiscal year. The increase was 13.51 percent. Its present tele-density is 72.5 percent. The company has connected all the 77 districts in seven provinces with this wire and wireless and data services. RSS

KATHMANDU, Feb 4: Nepal Telecom has inked a deal with two Chinese companies for the large scale 4G deployment in the country.

Ntc, the government owned telecom company, signed a contract with CCSI, Hong Kong for RAN Network and ZTE for Core Network amid a function in Kathmandu on Sunday. Ntc Managing Director Dilli Ram Adhikari, representatives from CCSI and ZTE signed the contracts separately.

Now with Ntc 4G LTE contract, the telecom company will be able to provide 4G service in all parts of the country. The project is expected to be completed within a year.

Acording to Ntc, both the contracts are done as per the directives from Parliament’s Finance committee, MoCIT and in subjective to the Public Procurement Act.

The whopping multi-million dollar project for 65 lakh 4G users has a core network and two radio network. It will put the core locations in Butwal and Kathmandu.

With the RAN network 1 and 2, it will expand 4G in all seven provinces.

NTC 4G EXPANSION

Ntc had first launched the 4G network in the country on Poush 17, 2073 from Kathmandu and Pokhara. The expansion project of the 4G coverage, apart from these two cities, was halted owing to various reasons. But with this upcoming 4G project, Ntc 4G will reach to every nook and corner of the country.

Ntc had floated three tenders for those projects more than a year ago planning to expand the 4G network as per the customer demand.  The 4G expansion faced several hurdles from many sides. It was under the scrutiny of CIAA, the antigraft body to examine possible corruption, for nine months. The parliamentary committees had also asked about the huge investment if it can be done at a lesser cost. The finance committee had directed Ntc with three options. It seems they had selected one out of it.

Earlier, MoCIT had also sent a letter to Ntc to make provision to complete the 4G project within a year, and launch 5G in 4 cities. Following the directions, Ntc sped up its works in finalizing the contract.

Ntc 4G will act as an overlay to the existing 2G, 3G and people can select the services as per their choice. The company will also provide advanced services like VoLTE and ViLTE with its upcoming 4G service.

This 4G expansion project has a big significance for Nepal as it will provide a good opportunity in using the connectivity or broadband for the development of the country and making people’s lives better.

KATHMANDU, March 30: Nepal Telecom prepaid users can take loan up to Rs 40 each, as the stated-owned mobile network operator has started a loan service under its “Namaste credit” scheme.

The service started from today following its inauguration by Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota at a program organized in the capital by the NTC on Friday.

A NTC’s GSM and CDMA prepaid user can as per the service take out loan worth Rs 5 to Rs 40, which will be compensated later by deducting from next recharge.

The service is free from interest and other charges. NTC prepaid SIM cards should be in use for the past three months to use the facility.

One can type status, and send to 1477 for information about the service, said NTC’s Spokesperson Prathiva Baidhya, adding that for service closure, one can type stop, and send to 1477.

The service will operate again only after paying back the loan.

Speaking at the event, Minister of State Baskota lauded the loan facility as positive steps.

NTC’s managing director Kamini Rajbhandari expressed hope that the loan service would help increase additional faith of the users in NTC. RSS

NUWAKOT, Jan 4: The service of Nepal Telecom has disrupted in Nuwakot and Rasuwa since Wednesday.

With the technical problem occurred in main optical fibre brought from Galchhi of Dhading, the mobile (pre-paid, post-paid, PSTN and landline) and internet service of the Telecom have been disrupted.

The service has seen obstruction since 3.00 pm Wednesday. Costumers in Nuwakot and Rasuwa districts have been deprived of the communications services for no efforts from the concerned authorities to fix the problems. RSS

DOLPA, Oct 7: Mobile phone services of Nepal Telecom (NT) in remote Dolpa district have been suspended for two weeks as the towers of Namaste and Sky Mobile services have gone dysfunctional.

The Regional Office of Nepal Telecom in Nepalgunj stated that repeated problems have been witnessed in mobile services as some equipment are yet to install in radio link tower located in Rasi area of Tripurasundari Municipality, Dolpa.

The folks of Dolpa are detached from the communication services for nearly two weeks due to problem in NT’s prepaid phone service, Prakash Panthi of Tripurasundari Municipality complained. He added that the Sky Mobile service of the NT is also irregular.

Likewise, Chief District Officer Keshavraj Acharya said that directives have been issued to proceed the tasks to end the technical hassles and resume the telephone services without delay. RSS