Achievement of Nepal Telecommunication Company (NTC) in 17 Years

Achievement of Nepal Telecommunication Company (NTC) in 17 Years:

Nepal Telecom (Nepal Telecommunication Company Limited), established as a leading institution in the telecommunication service of Nepal, has entered its 18th year after completing its seventeenth year. To make the Digital Nepal concept put forward by the government meaningful, NTC has been providing services to the customers through the use of the highest technology even in remote areas of the country. The company, which has a glorious history of more than a century of the beginning, development, and expansion of telecommunication services in the country, was transformed into a 'Company' in January 2003.   

On the occasion of the company's 17th anniversary, NTC has launched Forge Wireless Home Broadband Service and Machine to Machine Data and SMS service with attractive features that can be used on Forge mobiles across the country from Thursday. The service of NTC, which has moved ahead keeping in view the needs of the service recipients and the demand of the market, has reached about 70 percent of the population of the country.   

 When it was established seventeen years ago, NTC's customer base was only around 422,000, but now it has increased to 29 million. NTC has launched 4G mobile and data services based on wireless technology in all 77 districts of the country and FTTH services based on optical fiber in 42 districts.   

NTC has been providing basic telephones, wireless mobiles, telephone services based on satellite technology in remote areas, internet data services, and other services. Telecom has also been successful in implementing the concept of voice data and video after the launch of IPTV service under the NTV brand on January 1 last year as data and voice are being made available through the same fiber under the FTTH service.

The subscribers of GSM mobile are 184.31 million, CDMA service is 1.8 million and PSTN service is 6.17 million. Similarly, FTTH voice service has 71,300 customers. According to the MIS report of Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) for the month of November 2019, the total market share of the company towards voice services is 53.65 percent.   

 Similarly, the number of users of the company's data (email, internet, etc.) services towards the Internet data service has reached more than 16.49 million by the end of December 2019. Of them, 159.99 million users of GSM mobile data service, 181,500 users of ADSL service, 68,000 users of FTTH data service, and 18,500 users of WiMAX service. About 2.5 million customers have reached GSM Four so far.