"NST is also going to provide its voice and data services," Ajeya Raj Sumargi, executive director at NST said adding that NST will start its operation from the rural areas and will launch its GSM service within a year at Kathmandu.
"Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) has granted number 96 for the NST service users. Similarly, initial number will be 3 and a ten-digit number, Sumargi added.
Mukti Shree Telecom (Nepal), Sewa Telecom Pvt Ltd (Bangladesh), Pakistan Mobile Communication (Pakistan) and Air Bell Company (Cyprus) are the major investors of Nepal Satellite Telecom (NST).
"Its services will be started from the unprofitable areas that is the reason why it is getting more facilities compared to others," said Asmita Sumargi, chairman of NST. According to NTA, NST has Basic Telecommunication Service license under which it also has license for limited mobility service -only for landline.
NST got its license on February 17, 2008 and according to the licence it has to start its services from the mid western region, followed by Far Western Region, Western region and only after it can bring its service to the Kathmandu Valley.
The company primarily has a total investment of $25 million and Nabil Bank and Nepal Investment Bank Ltd (NIBL) have provided credit facility to the company.
It is also planning to bring international gateway, CDMA and landline PSTN services in near future. The company will be granting employment to 160 Telecom experts both from national and international level.
There are already three players in the market -- Nepal Telecom (NT), Spice Nepal and United Telecom Ltd (UTL).
Among them NT plans to distribute 2.2 million GSM mobile in the fiscal year 2009-10, increase the number of CDMA to 0.4 million and 50,000 more land line services.
According to the NTA data of last May, Spice Nepal has service penetration of one in 100 population. With its market share of 40.27 per cent and NT with 59.73 per cent.
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