An ambitious plan by the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) to begin construction of its District Optical Fibre Network Programme has so far failed to get off the drawing board, due to problems in receiving the necessary go ahead from the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC). The Himalayan News Service reports that the fibre programme, which is scheduled as a task in the NTA’s current financial year, had planned to use monies collected in the Kingdom’s Rural Telecom Development Fund (RTDF) to construct the new infrastructure. However, a spokesman at the NTA is quoted as saying that in light of the MoIC’s heel-dragging, ‘the plan to complete the District Optical Fibre Network Programme by 2014 is almost impossible’.
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OVETEL NTA’s district fibre-optic network plan falters
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