Nepal Telecom Authority (NTA) has canceled the process of launching Nepal’s own satellite that had begun four years back.

The NTA’s move follows the formulation of a new satellite policy at home. The NTA said the formulation of the policy prompted to cancellation of the Expression of Interest for launching the satellite. NTA spokesperson Meen Prasad Aryal said a new process would begin in line with the new policy. 

The new policy requires the implementation of required laws and operation modality separately.

The Authority is prepared to call for international consultants to go with a new process.  The new satellite policy promises to launch Nepal’s own satellite by 2022. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) had permitted Nepal to install the satellite on 123/3 east longitude positions.

A study team formed by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology came up with the conclusion that the positions allowed by the ITU were not appropriate for positioning the satellite.   

The committee recommended 80 to 89 degrees east longitude as the suitable locations for launching the satellite.

The NTA had received the Expression of Interest from 22 companies of 12 countries. 

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Some users might have experienced problems during the upgrade and as per some customers, they had found issues in 4G browsing the day after. Some online news reports quoting the spokesperson of Nepal Telecom as the issue will resolve within a day or two.

According to NC spokesperson Rajesh Joshi, said performed migration to new PCRF (policy and charging rules function) having bigger capacity. They also ask the customer to put“ntnet” as an Access Point in their mobile data settings. Now they will also send an alert notification two times after consumption of 80 percent and 100% volume in the data pack.

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Nepal Telecom will provide SIM cards free of cost to Nepalis returning home from abroad in the aftermath of the global coronavirus pandemic.
The telecom will distribute cost-free SIM cards to the foreign-returnees by establishing booths at 20 transit points for those returning home from India and at the quarantine venue and holding centres that the government is going to set up for accommodating the foreign-returnees coming by air route, Nepal Telecom stated in a press release. 
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