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Telecom services in the country have reached to 46 out of every 100 people. With fierce competition among telecom companies, telecom penetration has touched 46.05 percent as of last fiscal year.With two telecom majors—Nepal Telecom (NT) and Ncell—in a neck and neck competition in the GSM segment, the country’s teledensity surged by 14.2 percent…

Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web becoming a publicly available service on the internet.While many people use the terms web and internet interchangeably, they are in fact different services.On August 6 1991, Tim Berners-Lee (now Sir), posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.…

Nepal Telecom (NT) on Wednesday called for global tenders for its ambitious mobile network expansion project. The tender is NT’s largest till this date. The state-owned telecom giant plans to add 10 million mobile lines cross the country at a cost of Rs 15-20 billion.The expansion project will be based on two technologies—Global System for…

Nepal Telecom (NT) is preparing to distribute new telephone lines through Optical Network Unit (ONU) and Multi Service Access Node (MSAN) in the newly expanded residential areas.“NT has already started to distribute the telephone lines under the Optical Network Unit technology in the pocket areas where 100-500 telephone lines are demanded,” NT…

Apple is now expected to released its next iPhone, possibly called the iPhone 4S or the iPhone 5, in October. Previous reports claiming AT&T has blacked out employee vacations during the last two weeks of September in preparation for the retail debut of the next iPhone are wrong, according to sources with knowledge of the situation cited by…

Nepal Telecom (NT) is signing a direct interconnectivity agreement with five more international telecom operators, according to the company.The company is going to sign interconnection agreements with Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and the UAE in the current fiscal year, Nepal Telecom managing director Vishwanath Goel said,…

Though it has been more than a decade since private Internet Service Provider has been offering .np domain, the government is yet to bring policy to regulate National Internet Registry.Mercantile Communications — a privately owned Internet Service Provider — has been managing .np domain since 1995 after government’s failure to formulate policy…

With 1.4 million subscribers, Ncell remained number one telecom service provider in terms of data/internet services subscribers, according to a report by Nepal Telecommunications Authority. “Its nearest competitor Nepal Telecom (NT) has 9,49,787 data/internet service subscribers by mid-April, Management Information System report of mid-March to…

ZTE – global telecommunications equipments and network solutions provider – has agreed to compensate Nepal Telecom as it provided faulty equipments.It is providing CDMA equipments worth $5,08,332 as compensation to Nepal Telecom, according to the Ministry of Information and Communication source.At least 15 various equipments — including Base…

Nepal Telecom (NT) and Qatar Telecom (Qtel) have signed an agreement for making better call connections between the two countries. With this, subscribers of both the companies will be able to make calls directly through optical fibre cable connection at low rates.Technically, cable interconnection between the two countries was active since last…