Telecom

Often we all listen to irritating tones while calling someone and cannot avoid listening to those tones until someone picks call at another end. For those who care about their caller Nepal Telecom and Ncell two major mobile service provider offering ringback tone service to change the monotonous ringback tones into melodious tunes. Either you user Ncell’s Personal Ring Back …

There are times when you get out of your balance and topping up your mobile instantly might be out of a question. You may have to go through an emergency situation where you must call or text somebody immediately. But you are running out of the balance in your mobile. In light of such situations, Ncell has a scheme called …

The selection committee formed to appoint a new managing director for Nepal Telecom has shortlisted six names. Of the six, five are from within NT and the remaining one candidate is from outside the company. The five candidates from Nepal Telecom are Kamini Raj Bhandari, Rabindra Jha, MatukAnanda Baidhya, Guna Keshari Pradhan and Sunil Kumar Pokharel. The candidate from outside …

Ncell, privately owned telecommunication service provider has taken an initiative to support reforestation and implement environment awareness program in Dhanusha, aiming to contribute to awareness and conservation of the environment. Under the initiative, as a part of its corporate social responsibility, Ncell has planted 50,000 trees in 33 hectares barren areas of Dhanushadham Protected Forest (DPF) to develop it as …

The commercial use of internet bandwidth to be purchased from China has been uncertain. Nepal and China have been connected with optical fiber network for the first time through the Rasuwgadhi border point by the mid-May but due to lack of commercial agreement, it is uncertain when the internet bandwidth will be purchased. The commercial agreement was supposed to be …

United Telecom Limited (UTL) has received a unified license (also known as basic telephone service license) from NTA (Nepal Telecommunication Authority), which allows it to expand GSM mobile services nationwide. UTL has been awarded the basic telephone service license after it cleared all its outstanding dues. The government had introduced the provision of unified license publishing a notice in 2012 …

Nepal Telecom is planning to implement current fiscal year 2016/17 as the year of investment and service expansion. The company has endorsed the budget of worth Rs 67 billion for this purpose. In the current fiscal year, NT plans to distribute twenty-five hundred fifty thousand mobile lines. As to PSTN and CDMA service, the company has plans to distribute 30,314 …

Ncell is organizing Ncell Mela in 5 major cities of the country, starting September 15, 2016 as part of its rebranding campaign. The event is being organized in Narayanghat, Pokhara, Butwal, Dharan and Birtamode to exchange seasonal greetings amid nearing festival season and to introduce new brand logo of the company among customers in a local level. Ncell Mela packed …

Nepal telecom has introduced data pack titled ‘Subharatri pack’ for its GSM prepaid mobile users in line with the Teej festival which is two days away. Issuing a press statement, NT has said that its GSM prepaid customers can use 500 MB of data within seven days at Rs 40 and 1200 MB of data within 15 days at Rs …

Nepal Telecom has announced special data packages titled ‘Subha Bihanai Sandhya’ data packs to its GSM prepaid users on the occasion of upcoming father’s day. Issuing a press statement, it has stated two volumes of data packs are available, one of 100 MB priced at Rs 45 with a validity of three days and the other is 225 MB priced …

Nepal Telecom has extended microwave radio link connection to all 75 districts across the country. On 4th Bhadra Nepal Telecom established microwave link connection in Simikot of Humla as the 75th district to be connected by microwave radio link. Earlier on 21st Ashadh it had extended the accessibility of microwave link in Dolpa and Mugu districts. Prior to this, NT …

Ncell has stated that expanding the sphere of its service sector; it will soon be launching mobile financial services. Much earlier, Nepal Rastra Bank had introduced a separate policy to allow telecom operators to operate mobile financial services. Speaking at a programme of logo launch, Simon Perkins, Managing Director of Ncell, said, ‘Complying with the policy, Ncell will be soon …

Pledges to provide affordable and innovative service to its customers Ncell has unveiled its new brand logo officially in a programme on Tuesday. Managing Director of Ncell, Simon Perkins together with Axiata Regional Chief Executive Officer for South Asia, Dr Hans Wijayasuriya unveiled the new brand logo of Ncell in a programme attended by customers, representatives from private sectors, foreign missions and …

Pledges to invest Rs 70bn in 2 years After four months of acquisition of Ncell by Axiata from Teliasonera, Axiata has unveiled new brand logo of Ncell. Axiata is the sole investor in Reynolds Holdings, which holds 80% shares of Ncell. It had acquired shares for Rs 109.86 billion in the last April. ‘The rebranding of Ncell marks the beginning …

It has been many years since Nepal Telecom made a decision to get a strategic partner but the process to get a strategic partner in Nepal Telecom is not getting any progress. NT has been pressing for the need of a strategic partner to ensure a secure position in a competitive telecommunication market. Back in 2014, Nepal Telecom was given a go-ahead …

The Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has collected a total of Rs 20 billion license renewal fee from two major telecom companies Nepal Telecom (NT) and Ncell. The fee was paid by the two companies in the last four fiscal years in Rs 2.5 billion annual installment basis. By the last fiscal year 2015-16, the two major telecom companies had cleared …

IVR, (interactive voice response), a telephony technology in which someone uses a touch-tone telephone to interact with a database to acquire information. IVR technology does not require human interaction over the telephone as the user’s interaction with the database is predetermined by what the IVR system will allow the user access to. The Telephone user activates IVR System by dialling …

Nationwide broadband to be available by 2020 National Broadband master plan prepared by Nepal Telecommunication Authority has proposed to bring in new telecom company to secure a more competitive telecommunications sector. It has stated that current state of duopoly of Nepal Telecom and Ncell which hold 95% of total market share is not likely to produce the good outcomes for …