Nepal Launches CDMA Telephone Service
Posted on: Saturday, 9 July 2005, 09:00 CDT
Nepal launches CDMA telephone service
KATHMANDU, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Nepal Telecom (NT), the state-run telecommunications operator, launched CDMA based basic telephone or"C-phone" service in the capital of Kathmandu Valley Friday.
"This will not only facilitate people to obtain telephone lines on-demand at any time, but will also allow the laptop users to browse Internet and send and receive facsimile massages at any place without use of telephone wires," said Managing Director of NT,Sugat Ratna Kansakar.
Through this project, NT hopes to expand its services to rural parts of the country and increase telephone density of the country from that of about three percent to 20 percent within six years, he added.
NT, which is planning to distribute a total of 1 million C- phone lines throughout the country by 2008, has announced that it will distribute around 100,000 lines in the valley, 75,000 in Biratnagar in eastern Nepal and Bhairahwa in western Nepal.
For this purpose, work is going on to install 207 base transceiver stations in different parts of the country, of which 36 stations have already been installed in Kathmandu, he said.
According to Sugat, around 144 commercial telephone operators in 66 different countries of the world have adopted CDMA and WCDMA technology.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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