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Nepal Telecom (NT) is preparing to award the entire 10 million mobile lines project to a single telecom equipment vendor against its original plan.The company, which assigned package B of the project to Huawei, is also set to award package A to same firm.Officials at NT said despite reservations from some members, the NT board recently…

Sales of high-end television sets, especially smart TVs and 3D TVs, have been soaring in the domestic market. Dealers of prominent electronics brands like LG, Sony, Samsung, Toshiba and Sharp, among others, said that sales were growing 20-25 percent annually.“It hasn’t been long that demand for smart and 3D TVs started increasing in the…

The government has finally unveiled a new frequency policy aimed at bringing in four more operators for third generation (3G) service. The Telecommunications Radio Frequency Distribution and Pricing Policy 2012 has set the base rate at Rs 12 million per MHz for 3G spectrum auction.The new policy was made public on Tuesday by the Ministry of…

The number of internet subscribers has swelled by 57 percent in the one-year period from mid-Aug 2011 to mid-Aug 2012, pushing the country’s internet penetration rate up to 19.32 percent. The growth is catalysed by increased demand for services like GPRS, ADSL, wireless, and optical fibre data services.As of mid-Aug 2012, the number of data…

Nepal Telecom (NT) on Monday commercially launched WiMax—wireless broadband internet service.In the initial phase, the company has targeted to provide the service to the corporate customers of the Kathmandu Valley.The NT has installed around four dozen base transcriber stations across the Valley for the purpose.The state-owned telecom…

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After Huawei Technologies, Swedish telecom system vendor Ericsson has also refused to undertake the package A of Nepal Telecom’s (NT) ambitious 10 million GSM lines project.A week ago, the telecom giant had terminated its contract with China’s ZTE Corporation for the package A — installation of 5.2 million GSM lines in the eastern, mid- and…

Apple expected to introduce new version of iPhone on 12 September and an 'iPad mini' in OctoberSpeculation is mounting that Apple will announce a new version of its iPhone on 12 September and an "iPad mini" – a smaller version of its bestselling tablet – in October.Dozens of leaked photos and samples from Apple's supply chain point to a…

Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) is going to study Internet Protocol version 6, a new addressing system that will allow more internet addresses to be assigned than the current version 4, which is the dominant communications protocol for most Internet traffic as of 2012.“The new web addressing system — Internet Protocol version 6 — will…