The Nepal Telecom and Spice Nepal Pvt Ltd have resumed their pre-paid cellular phone services that remained stalled since January 19 from Thursday morning.

The mobile phone service had remained suspended prior to municipal polls citing security reasons.

The NT had stopped its pre and post-paid mobile services from January 19 as per the directive of the government. Landline telephones – which went down as police raided houses and arrested over 100 opposition leaders and rights activists – resumed functioning after a few hours. The post paid mobile service resumed from January 23.

The pre-paid phone services have been resumed following protest programs launched by the Telecom employees for the last few days.

The employees had announced phase wise stir against the closure of pre-paid service saying NT was facing heavy losses due to closure.