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NT Celebrates 13th Anniversary

​Major challenge in protecting market share

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NT Celebrates 13th Anniversary
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February 5: The country’s biggest telecommunication company, Nepal Telecom (NT) has entered in its 13th year of service. The company has a market share of 48 percent in telephone and 54.78 percent in internet. NT finds it more challenging to keep intact its existing market share.

At the anniversary programme organised on February 4, Minister for Information and Communications Surendra Karki suggested that NT should take necessary strategy so that the customers can use more and more data and calls.      

Digambar Jha, chairman of the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) at the programme said that it was a matter of pride that being a government company, NT has arrived in the present stage through competition.

According to him, the challenges in the upcoming days will be that the company has to move ahead in the market by introducing new technology by maintaining its quality. “There is no situation to stay satisfied by looking at the income of the previous year,” he said, adding, “The market of the company is decreasing and the company should be alert on it.”

As an alternative for the government-owned companies which need to compete commercially, the government has made arrangement for  a system to make our own procurement regulations on as an alternative to the  public procurement Act in government offices. Jha suggested that NT that the company take benefit from this kind of regulation and move ahead for a strong competition.

NT is providing fix-line, mobile, VSAT, internet and other value added services. Likewise, the company has also recently started 4G service for the first time in the country.

 Discount in NT Service

 On the occasion of the 13th anniversary, Nepal Telecom has provided discount on different services. For the  new GSM pre-paid customers, the company is providing 400 Mb data for four days with 100 Mb per day.  Similarly, for GSM network customers, the company has provided 100 Mb Facebook data package on Rs 20  valid for five days.

 Likewise, NT will provide GSM night data package at Rs 40 on 500 Mb for seven days and 1200 Mb data on  Rs 85 valid for 15 days. In the same way under GSM data offer, the company has provided 200 Mb data for  seven days at Rs 130 and on 500 Mb data package for 15 days at Rs 300 and the company is providing  same data package as bonus offer. Meanwhile, under CDMA data offer, NT is providing 200 Mb at Rs 75  valid for seven days and 500 Mb data at Rs 175 for 15 days. 

 The company has re-started CRBT service and has provided free service for 15 days with one song per day.  In the same way, on NTPro service, the company is giving 50 percent discount on incoming call keeping the  rate at Rs three per minute from February 4.

 Also, the company is providing 10 percent bonus on the recharge of Rs 50, Rs.  100 and Rs. 200 and 15  percent bonus on Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 from February 5.

 

NT is implementing new rate on few services valid from February 12 under which unlimited ADSL package will be available with additional bandwidth on existing monthly rate.

The additional bandwidth will be made available 256 Kbps for at Rs 900 instead of 192 Kbps, 512 Kbps at Rs 1,500 instead of 384 Kbps and 768 Kbps for Rs 2,700 instead of available 512. 

Also, the monthly port charge of internet and intranet lease service has been decreased from Rs 500 to Rs 100, copper lease access charge has been decreased to Rs 200 from Rs 500 and optical lease access charge has been decreased to Rs 300 from Rs 1,000.

Besides this, 25 free calls are provided in landline service from February 12 to March 13.

 

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