Nepal Telecom plans to increase phone connection to 6m
Tuesday, 24 July 2007
KATHMANDU, July 23 (Xinhua): The state-owned telecom provider Nepal Telecom (NT) has announced its ambitious plan of increasing 6 million telephone connections within three-year, The Himalayan Times reported today.
According to the daily, once the plan is completed by 2010, Nepal will make a giant leap forward in total telephone connections with a four-folds growth from the existing 1.6 million lines provided by NT.
Under the three-year plan, NT plans to distribute additional 3. 5 million GSM mobile phone numbers and 1 million phones based on code division multiplexing access (CDMA) technology.
"Every nooks and corner of the country will have telephone connectivity," Sugat Ratna Kansakar, managing director at the NT was quoted by the daily as saying.
Currently, NT's GSM mobile phone has covered 42 districts, whereas CDMA phones have reached to 70 districts out of 75 in the country.
"Nepal Telecom is the best public sector utility and the largest telecom operator that has scores of challenges ahead," he said, adding that the main challenge is to meet the unexpectedly increasing demands.
"To respond to it, massive reforms are underway both on expansion of infrastructure and improving systems," he said.
According to the daily, once the plan is completed by 2010, Nepal will make a giant leap forward in total telephone connections with a four-folds growth from the existing 1.6 million lines provided by NT.
Under the three-year plan, NT plans to distribute additional 3. 5 million GSM mobile phone numbers and 1 million phones based on code division multiplexing access (CDMA) technology.
"Every nooks and corner of the country will have telephone connectivity," Sugat Ratna Kansakar, managing director at the NT was quoted by the daily as saying.
Currently, NT's GSM mobile phone has covered 42 districts, whereas CDMA phones have reached to 70 districts out of 75 in the country.
"Nepal Telecom is the best public sector utility and the largest telecom operator that has scores of challenges ahead," he said, adding that the main challenge is to meet the unexpectedly increasing demands.
"To respond to it, massive reforms are underway both on expansion of infrastructure and improving systems," he said.