TECH

The private sector has said that the country has not been able to exploit the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) for economic prosperity. Lack of appropriate policies, investment and physical infrastructure has pushed Nepal far behind other countries in terms of development, business people said at a programme here on…

One in two Nepalis now has access to basic telecom services including mobile service. According to the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), tele-density has reached more than 50 percent from 1.47 percent a decade ago.The latest statistics of the NTA show that the country’s telecom subscriber base has increased to 13.51 million. According…

Mobile internet service still dominates domestic internet service market, according to a report by the telecom regulator.Mobile internet, sub-broadband speed connections, accounted for 3.144 million of the total 3.276 million internet users until mid-April, according to latest Management Information Service (MIS) report of Nepal…

(Reuters) - India launched what it dubbed the world's cheapest tablet computer Wednesday, to be sold to students at the subsidized price of $35 and later in shops for about $60.Most of India's 1.2 billion people are poor and products such as Apple Inc's iPad are beyond the reach even of many in the fast-growing middle class."The rich have…

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A recent study of consumption trends in the Kathmandu Valley—the major telecom market—has shown that over 83 percent of mobile subscribers are not satisfied with the service. The report has urged the government to start monitoring the telecom sector including other service sectors.The survey has also underlined the need to create competition in…

The Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has fixed the maximum subsidy for expanding the optical fibre link to all the districts in the country under the District Optical Fibre Network Programme at Rs 3.27 billion. The project which will lay 4,000 km of fibre cable is estimated to cost around Rs 5 billion.Extension of the fibre cable…

Nepal is witnessing an explosion of international internet bandwidth.Capacity on Internet links connecting to the world have increased extensively lately.Most of the telecom service providers have taken international bandwidth from India to meet the demand of domestic market, according to an official at the Nepal Telecommunication Authority.…

The world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services of mobile and fixed network operators Ericsson, has opened its office in Nepal.Ericsson is being very aggressive in partnering with telecom operators to bring quality telecom experience in Nepal with state of art technology based on next generation networks.Its…

The consumers of data and internet services reached to 3.11 million until mid-July with overall 10.89 per cent internet penetration rate, according to the MIS report of Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA).Some 2.83 million people are connected to the internet using GPRS, followed by 154,548 internet users, who are connected through CDMA.…