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Selection of Service Provider Still Not Decided

Mid-hill Highway Optical Fiber Expansion

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Selection of Service Provider Still Not Decided
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March 31: The selection of service providers from the tender invited to install the optical fiber in province no. 4 and 5 along the Mid-Hill Highway has been delayed.

Due to the sluggish works of the Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA), the service provider has not yet been fixed as six months have already passed after asking for the applications.

For the installation of optical fiber for the first time in those places, the Authority had asked for applications from service providers on September 29, 2016. Though the application was to be filed till November 11, NTA extended the deadline to January 10, 2017 and received applications till the date. On that time period, two telecommunications service providers and one internet service providers proposed for auction bidding.

A committee was formed with different department officials from the Authority for the analysis of the received applications. The six members under the coordination of Purushottam Khanal, Director of NTA submitted the analysis report a week before to Digambar Jha, Chairman of NTA.

On the basis of recommendations made by the committee, the Authority can select one particular company for letter of intent (LOI) or can cancel it. Jha said that he has not studied the report till date, however, the decision will be made by April 6.

According to the application filed by the service providers at NTA, Ncell, WorldLink and UTL have expressed their interests to invest Rs 2.71 billion, Rs 2.50 billion and Rs 2.01 billion respectively.

Meanwhile, NTA has made it clear that the project will be given to a company which can conclude the project at reasonable cost and which is technically capable. The selected company will get auctioned bid amount as grant from the Rural Telecommunication Development Fund (RTDF).

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