Minister for Information and Communication Krishna Badadur Mahara said on Wednesday that the government has accorded top priority to expansion of telecom services in the rural areas.

Minister for Information and Communication Krishna Bahadur Mahara
While inaugurating the fifth anniversary of the Nepal Telecom (NT), he said, “The government is well aware of the fact that access to telecommunications is the fundamental right of people.”

Minister Mahara also asked the NT officials to take initiations towards bridging the technological divide between urban and rural Nepal.

Speaking at the same occasion, Amar Nath Singh, managing director, NT, informed that the NT is all geared up to expand the telephone and internet services to the viable remote areas across the country through KU band VSAT technology.

According to the NT, it is planning to introduce “Next Generation Network (NGN)” technology to replace the existing PSDTN technology. Voice, data and video service can be operated via the NGN service. nepalnews.com Feb 5 09