Communications in Nepal

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Telephones - PSTN: 422,456 (December 2004), CDMA

Telephones - Cellular service available by Nepal Telecom, formerly known as Nepal Telecommunications Corporation (NTC) and Spice Nepal (Pvt.) Ltd. 1 WLL telephone service by United Telecom Limited (UTL).

Telephone system: Good telephone and telegraph service; fair radiotelephone communication service and mobile cellular telephone network
Domestic: Microwave + Optical Fiber
International: Radiotelephone Communications; microwave landline to India; satellite earth station - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 20, shortwave 1 (January 2000)

Radios: 840,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 5 (plus 9 repeaters) (2005)

Televisions: 130,000 (1997)

Registered Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 26 (2004)

Internet users: 200,000 (2004)

Country code (Top level domain): NP

Internet Sites:

[edit] References

This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook (2003 edition) which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain. 1st Anniversary Souvenir, Nepal Telecom, 2005

[edit] See also

• Nepal