The Himalayan Times reports that despite an increase in the number of telecoms providers contributing to Nepal’s Rural Telecom Development Fund, the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has so far struggled to use the monies raised to improve telecom access to rural parts of the country. According to NTA director Purushottam Khanal, the nation’s telcos have added a total of NPR4.25 billion (USD54.1 million) to the Fund – including NPR22 million in the first half of the current fiscal year – with contributions coming from Nepal Telecom, Ncell, UTL, Nepal Satellite and STM. The sixth operator, Smart Telecom, will not have to contribute to the Fund until the next fiscal year according to its licence.
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OVETEL Bureaucracy and red tape stifling Nepal’s rural telecom development
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