Nepal Telecom's offer for Dashain to Chhath festival.

OCT 5, 2013: Nepal Telecom has announced several offers for this festive season from Dashain, Tihar to Chhath, in addition to the 50 percent discount in WiMAX ODU. The offer ranges from SMS discount to free calls to call discount to data discount and bonus. NT has offered 50 percent discount in SMS for its GSM/CDMA mobile which is only valid for the duration 2070-6-24 to 2070-7-01 and 2070-7-16 to 2070-7-23. Fixed phones (PSTN plus CDMA C-phone) are entitled to get 25 free local calls from Rental Rs 200 for the month of Ashwin and Kartik.

It is also known that there will be 10 percent discount in voice calls for GSM/CDMA prepaid and postpaid customers. In comparison to GSM, there are more offers for NT CDMA customers like 20 percent discount in data tariff for CDMA EVDO/PDSN, and bonus for the voice calls in CDMA postpaid/prepaid.

CDMA bonus amount will be given according to the amount spent in the mobile.

 

Amount spent		Bonus
Rs 1-Rs 10		Rs 1
Rs 11- Rs 20		Rs 2
Rs 21- Rs 30		Rs 3
Above Rs 30		Rs 5

Those voice/SMS/Data discount are valid for the duration 2070-6-24 to 2070-7-01 and 2070-7-16 to 2070-7-23, which were used to be valid for the whole festive season from Dashain to Chhaath in previous years.

Plus there is a 50 percent offer for WiMAX tariff with three months subscription at once, valid from 2070-6-20 to 2070-7-23.

Nepal Telecom opens customer center.

March 28, 2013: Nepal Telecom- the government owned telecom operator and pioneer of all telecom technologies in Nepal, has started opening its customer center in Kathmandu. Now only for the distribution of WiMAX service (launched for general users this Wednesday), Nepal Telecom has used this sort of customer centers in Kathmandu to provide information about WiMAX and distribute Wimax CPE to customers. To start with, they have only four of such centers in Kathmandu located at the core part of the city (Kingsway, Putalisadak, Baneshwor and Kupondole) which will be later increased to 14. This is the first time Nepal Telecom has used customer center outside it's own office, to distribute their services.

 It is also known that Nepal Telecom is planning to distribute their GSM, CDMA SIM cards through outsourcing from counters outside their offices. As Nepal Telecom is bringing out huge no. of lines in GSM and CDMA, they feel it would be hard to distribute huge no. of subscribers only from their office counters. But it is not clear whether the same customer centers opened now will be used for the distribution.

Ncell- the private telecom operator in GSM has already made a drive to open Ncell centers in all major parts of the country for the dissemination of information and services. Apart from such centers, Ncell even enables a simple stationary to distribute their SIM cards.

Here is a picture of a Nepal Telecom Customer Center, in Kingsway.

Nepal Telecom's revenue at 36 Billion.

Nepal Telecom- the government owned telecom operator says the total revenues is at NRs 36 Billion and 790 million in the Fiscal year 2068/69 B.S, which is 15 % up compared to the fiscal year 2067/68 B.S. The total profit (before tax) is around 15 Billion and 610 million NRs which after tax comes to 11 Billion and 600 Million NRs. Though the total revenue is increased as compared to 2067/68 FY, the total profit declines as 4 Billion NRs was separated for the License Renewal fee to be paid to NTA(Nepal Telecommunication Authority) for the huge sum NRs 20 Billion, to be paid in 8 Installments.

Nepal Telecom, gets such revenue mainly from voice telephony which is from various technologies like PSTN landline, GSM (Namaste) Prepaid and Post paid, CDMA (Sky phone) Pre Paid and Post Paid. The revenue from Internet services is also increasing as the total no. of internet subscription is boosting up quite significantly. Among the total service revenue of 32 Billion, GSM service alone  earned NRs 15 Billion. Nepal Telecom believes the revenue and profit to increase hugely in this fiscal year 2069/70 BS as many of its big projects will be launched within the year and even targets the Internet revenue to increase much heavily with the nationwide addition of WiMAX, EVDO and 3G/Edge .

Huge Data rates cut in NT Data services.

Nepal Telecom has published new tariff for all of its data services (Dial-up, ISDN, ADSL, WiMAX, GPRS and CDMA EVDO). Marking the day of World Telecommunication and Information society day on Jestha 3, 2070 (May 17, 2013), NT will implement the hugely cut tariff for the data services.

Unlimited Internet in NT WiMAX.

With the new data packages, NT will also be starting the Unlimited internet in their WiMAX service- the latest technology for the data services. Launched some months a ago for individual users, WiMAX had not quite picked up the data market which was previously assumed to grab hugely, mostly due to the limited package only. Now listening to the public demand for unlimited internet in WiMAX, NT comes up with such plan and it seems like this plan will get popular among Internet hungry customers.Two unlimited packages in WiMAX will be available for now- 256 Kbps and 2 Mbps of which 2 Mbps will only be provided to corporate offices only. 256 kbps WiMAX costs Rs 1500 and there will be additional 30 percent discount for the first three month and 2 Mbps costs Rs 9,300.

Other packages are 

• unlimited dial-up package for Rs 200/month with Rs 100 per month for night surfing only. 
• Unlimited Package: 64 kbps = Rs. 200/month, 128 kbps = Rs. 400/ month
• 40 percent data volume bonus to ADSL and WiMAX volume packages with the purchase of 3 months package of above.
• 50 paisa per 1 MB data package in CDMA EVDO.
• 3G/EVDO Volume based packages are:

                Data Volume               Tariff (Rs)              Validity Period.

                   25 MB                         11                           1 day 

                300 MB                        130                         15 days 

                500 MB                        200                           1 month 

                    2 GB                         760                           1 month 

                    5 GB                      1,700                           1 month 

                  10 GB                      2,400                           1 month 

With the above tariff rates, NT intends to give wide range of data packages for different kinds of services and it seems like this latest tariff (fulfilling the customer real demand) will increase the data usage of NT Internet services. 

NT increases prepaid recharge validity period.

June 19: Nepal telecom increases the validity period of top ups for prepaid mobile from Wednesday. As specified earlier, NT implements the extension of prepaid mobile top ups after being approved by the company board. Previous news only included the addition of validity period for the top ups available through recharge cards which had the duration almost doubled, but the latest statement from the operator says the validity period is also applicable to Pinless top up (MPOS). Now the recharge of the least amount Rs 10 increases the validity by 5 days, up from a single day, whereas the recharge of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 extends the validity to  360 days and 730 days respectively. 

Here is the list of increase in validity period for all the recharge amount. 

NT's offer for EVDO- 3G CDMA: Fastest Internet in Nepal.

Nepal Telecom has brought a new offer for its EVDO service- 3G CDMA technology which is branded as SKY PRO: Fastest Internet so far in Nepal. With the new offer, customer will be getting 5 GB data package for Rs 2459 (inclusive of tax)plus free EVDO dongle with 1 GB Memory card that can be expandable with SD card up to 32 Gb and Rs 100 free talk time. Currently the 5 GB data package is told to be valid for a month which will be increased to 3 months shortly. Till now, Nepal Telecom's EVDO is available in all metro cities, growing cities, major highways, almost all district headquarters, and the coverage is being extended to all parts of the country.

EVDO is a CDMA based 3G technology that can provide wireless broadband internet up to 3.1 Mbps downlink and 1.8 Mbps uplink with Rev A version whereas old version Rel 0 provides 2.4 Mbps downlink and 153 Kbps uplink. As EVDO Rel 0 has significantly slower uplink speeds as compared to EVDO Rev A, customers having USB dongle of Rel 0 EVDO are getting lower uplink speed and they complain about the network problem but it's actually due to the EVDO version that the dongle is compatible with. So, for the people who are going to get a EVDO USB dongle, make sure it supports EVDO Rev A for better download and upload speeds.

GSM Post Paid, Landline, and ADSL Bill payment from Recharge card.

Nepal Telecom has launched the facility of paying the bill of GSM Post paid, landline telephone, ADSL from Namaste recharge card. You can even use MPOS technology (Pinless Top-up) to clear the bills. Previously you had to get in queue in several counters to pay the bill though bank payment was also there. From this facility, you don't have to go to these counters for the bill payment purpose only. Below is the procedure for how to do the bill payment from your phone.

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1. From IVR:

 Dial 1413 and follow the directions to pay the bill for your GSM post paid, Landline and ADSL service.

 

2. From USSD.

Buy the amount of recharge chard you want to pay and use your GSM Post paid Mobile to dial *411*Pin  No.*10#

 

3. From MPOS

Go to your Nearest MPOS retailer, give your GSM Post paid Mobile, PSTN and ADSL number and get the bill payment.

 

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