July 23, 2013: Nepal Telecom- the pioneer telco in our country, is
starting the GSM network swap from July 24 (Wednesday). With the swap,
the existing ZTE network will be changed to Huawei by 4.8 Million GSM
project
(Package B of 10 Million GSM Project)
that is designated for the whole of Kathmandu and Western Development
Region (WDR). NT is commencing the swap work from Kirtipur, the southern
part of Kathmandu and they believe everything in its place to have a
well managed swap. From Kirtipur, they will be operating Huawei BTS
towards Kathmandu and Lalitpur which takes around two to three weeks to
complete. Implementing the Huawei Network, it is told that Nepal Telecom
will be upgrading the data speed in internet (3G) along with good
quality Voice for which NT and Huawei Engineers are working hard.
It is also known that there may be some problem during the swap time. For that, customers need to
switch off/On at least once and wait patiently for sometime, but NT
requests them to contact their mobile customer center (1498) if the problem
persists.
What to expect from new Network?
Once the old network gets swapped by a new network, customers will be
getting high capacity, good quality GSM network and the best part is
they will be having a good 3G network all over Kathmandu for high speed
Internet. As there will be some problems during the swap, it is told
that NT and Huawei engineers will be working hard to solve such problems
a.s.a.p. With the Swap, NT expects to provide better call quality and
high speed Internet (3G) in Kathmandu.