3 months FREE internet from Broadlink [offer]



Broadlink WifiBroadlink, one of the popular wireless internet service providers, has come up with an offer of 3 months of free internet with purchase of a Signal Booster Kit (SBK) which is priced at NRs 7,499. This three month unlimited internet package is provided at 512 Kbps data rate and is to be used during the 3 months free internet period after the valid purchase of SBK. The unique unified WiFi network of Broadlink is so popular among users who love to get always connected. Broadlink is also popular in sense that their coverage is increasingly large not only in Kathmandu, but in many other cities in Nepal.

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LTE or WiMax : what should Nepal go for?



LTE_logo , Long Term Evolution image logo, techsansar.comWe are hearing news about WiMax in recent days in Nepal (also read our WiMAX coverage written 2 years ago) whereas it is LTE in the western world that has already been deployed. Even though Nepal was the first to announce and launch 3G (?) in South Asia, India has overthrown Nepal in 4G LTE deployment recently, while Nepal still struggling to improve the network coverage of 2.5G. Looks like Telecom mafia has invaded Nepal in recent decade, as a result customers are paying large amount of fees to operators who even don’t care how well their network signals are performing. [Read more...]

Legal VoIP Providers in Nepal

VoIP Internet Telephony

VoIP Internet Telephony, img from instablogsimages.com

Last time we wrote about Wireless Internet service providers in Nepal, many of which happen to be legal VoIP providers as well. However, after many illegal VoIP activities going on in the country, the government had decide to legalize it. That has lead to many larger providers go into the voice-data-telephony business.

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Overview of Wireless Internet Service (WiFi) Providers in Nepal

WiFi Internet TowerNo matter how our country runs in terms of physical infrastructure development with hours and hours of power cut (loadshedding), we still have a good number of telco companies and Internet Service Providers. Even though data (internet) customers in Nepal are not happy with the service providers in a way or the others, we have enough number of Wireless Internet Service Providers (WiFi ISPs) running in various cities in Nepal and airing tonnes of bandwidth every single second. Currently there are 45 registered ISPs in Nepal (excluding Network Service Providers). In this article, we review currently operating WiFi ISPs (both fixed and mobile WiFi providers, excluded are mobile operators) in Nepal.

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Politics disrupts progress in Nepalese Teleco and ICT Sector

Nepal Government destructs the need of IT

Nepal Government destructs the need of IT

Politics in Telecom and IT
Recently Supreme Court (SC) asked Nepal Telecom Authority (NTA) board to stop nominating the board members until a final verdict. Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC) and NTA has been involved in this political dividend of the posts. The formation of the committee in NTA was against the Telecommunication ACT – according to advocate of this hearing. Not much about this known to us – this is all politics. [Read more...]