5:01 AM
Nepal
Telecom and Huawei have signed a contract for 4.8 Million GSM lines
including 3G+ (LTE) data services which is worth about 7 billion Nepali
Rupees. Nepal Telecom's MD Amar Nath Singh and Huawei's Commercial
Manager Liyan Chi Chang have inked the deal. It's been more than six
months when Nepal Telecom had floated a global tender for 10 Million
GSM lines which was separated in 4.8 M and 5.2 M lines, of which ZTE
and Huawei were selected for further discussions. NT had months of
discussion with the vendor after passing hurdles from Finance Committee
in CA, and CIAA (Commission for the Inviestigation of Abuse of
Authority).
With
this, Nepal Telecom will be swapping the existing ZTE system in
Central Development Region (Kathmandu) and Western Development
Region(WDR) with the Huawei System, having more no of lines and
additional high speed internet services of 3G and 3G+ LTE Service (45 %
2G GSM lines and 55% 3G and 3G+ LTE lines). Though various operators
in foreign countries call LTE service as 4G just for marketing purpose,
we will have to wait and see what will they call for the fast LTE
service in Nepal. Nepal Telecom is confident of the new project to
cater the cost effective and quality service demand in the market.
NT
is also going to sign a contract with ZTE for the 5.2 Million lines,
the leftover of 10 M Project. "Soon we are going to discuss with ZTE to
do a pact for the remaining 5.2 million lines" says Nepal Telecom's MD
Amar Nath Singh.
