KATHMANDU, DEC 14 - 2012
Nepal Telecom is upgrading its CDMA network to an IP-based network with major focus on improving voice service and taking wireless mobile broadband internet to all parts of the country.
The company on Thursday said data service with speeds up to 3.1 mbps based on the new network would be available across the country within the next year.
Migration from CDMA to IP-based infrastructure will enable NT to provide Evolution Data Optimised (EVDO), also known as third generation (3G) CDMA, service in all parts of the country, regardless of the terrain. Currently, NT is providing the EVDO service in limited areas of the Kathmandu valley, Pokhara, Lumbini, Birjung and Hetuada.
“It will take around a year to expand the service to all parts of the country,” said Anoop Ranjan Bhattarai, director of the Wireless Service Directorate at NT. He said the company would be able to start providing EVDO service from mid-January, covering the whole Kathmandu and Pokhara valleys and other cities like Birantnagar in the East, Dhangadi and Nepalgunj in the West and other parts of the country.
Existing users can avail voice service from normal CDMA handsets even after the network upgradation. As for the data service, subscribers will have to buy new handsets supporting EVDO that normally cost Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000.
NT, in its existing CDMA network, has over 1 million subscribers, including mobile and fixed lines. Services like CDMA, Sky Phone, C-Phone and EVDO data are being provided by the company under the CDMA technology.
According to NT spokesperson Guna Kesari Pradhan, CDMA subscribers might face some problems in voice and data service due to the ongoing system upgradation.
In such a case, she said users have to restart their handsets. The system upgradation is expected to take around one month.
CDMA network upgradation is also part of NT’s ongoing project of 2 million IP CDMA lines. In the current fiscal year, the company has targeted to distribute more than 700,000 CDMA lines.
In August 2011, NT had signed an agreement with Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies at $30 million for the implementation the IP CDMA project in two phases.
Source: The Kathmandu Post
Nepal Telecom is upgrading its CDMA network to an IP-based network with major focus on improving voice service and taking wireless mobile broadband internet to all parts of the country.
The company on Thursday said data service with speeds up to 3.1 mbps based on the new network would be available across the country within the next year.
Migration from CDMA to IP-based infrastructure will enable NT to provide Evolution Data Optimised (EVDO), also known as third generation (3G) CDMA, service in all parts of the country, regardless of the terrain. Currently, NT is providing the EVDO service in limited areas of the Kathmandu valley, Pokhara, Lumbini, Birjung and Hetuada.
“It will take around a year to expand the service to all parts of the country,” said Anoop Ranjan Bhattarai, director of the Wireless Service Directorate at NT. He said the company would be able to start providing EVDO service from mid-January, covering the whole Kathmandu and Pokhara valleys and other cities like Birantnagar in the East, Dhangadi and Nepalgunj in the West and other parts of the country.
Existing users can avail voice service from normal CDMA handsets even after the network upgradation. As for the data service, subscribers will have to buy new handsets supporting EVDO that normally cost Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000.
NT, in its existing CDMA network, has over 1 million subscribers, including mobile and fixed lines. Services like CDMA, Sky Phone, C-Phone and EVDO data are being provided by the company under the CDMA technology.
According to NT spokesperson Guna Kesari Pradhan, CDMA subscribers might face some problems in voice and data service due to the ongoing system upgradation.
In such a case, she said users have to restart their handsets. The system upgradation is expected to take around one month.
CDMA network upgradation is also part of NT’s ongoing project of 2 million IP CDMA lines. In the current fiscal year, the company has targeted to distribute more than 700,000 CDMA lines.
In August 2011, NT had signed an agreement with Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies at $30 million for the implementation the IP CDMA project in two phases.
Source: The Kathmandu Post
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