Total telecom subscriber rose by 3 lakhs in a month to 16.6 million lines, as per the data given by the Telecom regulator, Nepal Telecom Authority (NTA). The total telecom lines include PSTN, GSM, CDMA fixed and Mobile, Limited Mobility and GMPCS (Communication by Satellite) lines.
Altogether of Seven telecom licensee for all the technologies, Nepal Telecom and Ncell stand in the front-line both in head to head competition to cross the crore (10 M) line, now near to 8 Million lines.
Total subscriber base now stands at 16.6 million with overall teledensity of 62.56 percent in June.
Ncell, largest private GSM operator (from European Giant Teliasonera Group) added the most around 1.8 lakh customers while state owned operator Nepal Telecom added around 1 lakh customers in the month of June.
Other growing operators, Smart Telecom and Nepal Satellite saw thousands of additional subscribers to sum up the rest around 1 lakh customers. They are running limited mobility service (LMS) based on GSM.
Indian invest UTL (United Telecom) is almost steady with same number of customers and no extension plan in the coming.
