Nepal Telecom

Nepal Telecom or Nepal Telecommunications Corporation (NT/NTC) is the leading and the largest government owned telecommunication company of Nepal. It is also known as Nepal Doorsanchar Company Limited (NDCL). A former government monopoly, it was converted into a Public Limited Company on April 14, 2004. NT has sold around 10% of its share to local market and company's employees in 2008. Nepal Telecom was the only provider of basic telephony services in Nepal until United Telecom Limited started providing services in 2003.

The Central Office of Nepal Telecom is located at Bhadrakali, Kathmandu. It has branches, exchanges and other offices in 184 locations within the country.

It is the sole provider of PSTN, ISDN and Leased-Line services in Nepal. Following the entry of [Ncell] into Nepal's telecommunications industry in 2005, it is no longer the only provider of GSM service. With around 6,500 employees, it is one of the largest corporations of Nepal. It has a total of 243 telephone exchanges in various part of the country serving 559,380 PSTN lines, more than 4.5 million GSM cellular phones and 1 million CDMA phone line as of July 2011. According to recent data,^[1] there are about 6 million users of NTC including all those of GSM, CDMA and PSTN.

Services

• Basic Telephony
• ISDN
• GSM Cellular Telephony
• Email
• Internet Leased Line
• WebSMS
• Payphone
• CDMA Network as SkyPhone
• Wireless Loop Link
• CDMA EV-DO
• 3G
• HSDPA
• Intelligent Network
• Voice Mail
• GPRS Service
• Multimedia Messaging, MMS
• DDN^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• ADSL

History

• 1913 Establishment of first telephone lines in Kathmandu
• 1914 Establishment of Open wire Trunk Link from Kathmandu to Raxaul (India)
• 1935 Installation of 25 lines automatic exchange in Royal Palace
• 1936 Installation of Open Wire Trunk line from Kathmandu to Dhankuta
• 1950 Establishment of Telegram Service
• 1950 Introduction to High frequency Radio System (AM)
• 1950 Establishment of CB telephone exchange (100 lines) in Kathmandu
• 1951 Installation of Open Wire Trunk line from Kathmandu to Palpa
• 1955 Distribution of telephone line to general public
• 1962 First Public Telephone Exchange in Kathmandu (300 lines CB)
• 1964 Beginning of International Telecommunications Service using HF Radio to India and Pakistan
• 1965 First Automatic exchange in Nepal (1000 lines in Kathmandu)
• 1971 Introduction of Telex Services
• 1974 Microwave transmission links establishment for internal trunk
• 1982 Establishment of Standard "B" Type Earth Station for international circuits
• 1982 Establishment of SPC telex exchange
• 1983 Establishment of digital Telephone Exchange
• 1984 Commencement of STD service
• 1984 Reliable Rural Telecom Service (JICA)
• 1987 Commencement of STD service
• 1995 Installation of Optical Fiber Network
• 1996 Conversion of all Transmission link to Digital transmission link
• 1996 Automation of the entire Telephone Network
• 1996 Independent Int. Gateway Exchange established
• 1996 Introduction of VSAT services
• 1997 Digital Link with D.O.T. India through Optical Fiber in Birgunj - Raxual
• 1998 Direct Link with Bangladesh
• 1999 Launching of GSM Mobile service
• 2000 Implementation of SDH Microwave Radio
• 2000 Launching of Internet Service
• 2001 Launching of Payphone Service
• 2002 East West Highway Optical Fiber Project
• 2003 GSM Prepaid Service
• 2004 NEPAL TELECOM (Transformation from Corporation to Nepal Doorsanchar Company Limited)
• 2004 Pre-paid Calling Card Service (IN Services)
• 2005 Soft launch of CDMA
• 2005 Access Network Services
• 2005 Outsourcing of Enquiry Service (197)
• 2006 PSTN Credit Limit Service - PCL (IN)
• 2006 Home Country Direct Service - NepalDirect (IN)
• 2006 MCC (198) Complaint Registration via IVR in Kathmandu Valley
• 2006 CDMA Limited Services in Kathmandu Valley
• 2007 Expansion of Internet Bandwidth through India-Nepal cross border optical link
• 2007 National Roaming for CDMA Mobile (Sky Phone)
• 2008 Introduction of ADSL Internet Service

Network information

• Operator Name: Nepal Telecom
• Network Name (Post-paid GSM Mobile): NTC Mobile (429-01)
• Network Name (Pre-paid GSM Mobile): Namaste (429-01)
• Network Name (CDMA Mobile): Sky Phone (429-03)
• Technology: GSM 900
• Network Status: Live since May 1999

References

1. ^ TechSansar.com "Nepalese Telecom Operators"

External links

• Nepal Telecom Homepage
• Mile Stones - Nepal Telecom