In a bid to make the telecommunication service more competitive and provide customers with more amenities, Nepal Telecom (NT) announced various services to its customers.
Holding a press conference on Tuesday, the NT informed that the new services would come into effect from April 14, the Nepali New Year.
Post-paid subscribers of NT would now make free calls worth Rs 500, which is equivalent to the minimum monthly payment. Earlier NT was providing free calls worth Rs 250 only.
Likewise, NT would also be beginning ‘e-mail alert’ service for its post-paid subscribers from April 14. After the new service is introduced, NT will start notifying post-paid users about new e-mails that have arrived in customers’ inboxes.
“These services being introduced in trial basis and will initially be made free of cost to customers who have subscribed Internet and e-mail services from NT,” said Surendra Thike, spokesperson of NT.
Other services that the state owned NT would be launching from April 14 would be pre-paid recharge card worth Rs 200. Untill now NT have been issuing recharge cards of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 only.
Besides, from now onwards, pre-paid users of NT can query their balance amount and recharge accounts without dialing 1414. Customers will have to dial *400# for balance query and the system would automatically send an SMS with balance details and due date. Likewise for recharging pre-paid mobiles, users can dial *411* and then the number encrypted in the recharge card.
Another service that NT has introduced is balance transfer through which NT pre-paid subscribers can exchange their balance amount of maximum Rs 50.
It was also informed at the press meet that NT is working to launch its limited mobility service soon.
In the run of six years of NT’s service, it has distributed 110,000 post-paid mobile phones and 398,000 pre-paid mobile phones so far. nepalnews.com pb Apr 05 06