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V
Year Issue 3 Vol. 19
Chaitra, 2064 (April, 2008)
Nepal Telecommunications
Authority
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Management Information System
- (Falgun 2064)
- (13 February 2008 - 13 March
2008)
Chaitra 2064 (April 2008)
- P.O. Box No.
9754
- Bluestar
Office Complex
- Tripureshwore,
Kathmandu, Nepal
- Tel.:
+977-1-43101030-38
- Fax:
+977-1-4101034
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Table of
Contents |
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S.
No. |
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Page
No. |
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1. |
Introduction |
3 |
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2. |
NTA
activities during the past three months |
3 |
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3. |
Authority’s major decision in the month of Falgun, 2064 B.S.
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4 |
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4. |
Relevant
Acts and Regulations |
7 |
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5. |
Members of
NTA |
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6. |
Total no.
of Licenses issued in the different types of
Telecommunication Services |
8 |
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7. |
Glimpse of
Licensing Activities |
8 |
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8. |
Useful
Information |
9 |
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9. |
Telephone
Nos. of NTA |
10 |
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10. |
MIS
Committee |
10 |
1.
Introduction:
Nepal Telecommunications Authority was established in March 4, 1998
as an autonomous regulatory body within the framework of the
Telecommunication Act 1997 A.D. and Telecommunication Regulation
1997 A.D.
As per the section 13 of the Telecommunications Act 2053 B.S. (1997
A.D.) the functions and duties of the Authority are as follows:
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(a) To
provide suggestions to Government of Nepal on the policy, plan and
program to be adopted by Government of Nepal for the development of
the Telecommunications Service.
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(b) To make
the Telecommunications Service reliable and easily available to the
public.
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(c) To make
necessary arrangement to avail basic Telecommunications Service and
facilities in all rural and urban areas throughout Nepal.
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(d) To
involve the national and foreign private sector investors in the
operation of the Telecommunications Service.
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(e) To make
arrangement for the coordination and healthy competition among the
persons providing Telecommunications Service and facilities, so as
to provide such service and facilities to all public in general.
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(f) To
prescribe, fix and approve the standard and quality standard of the
plant and equipment relating to the Telecommunications and the
Telecommunications Service.
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(g) To
regularize and systematize Telecommunications Service
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(h) To grant
License to operate the Telecommunications service.
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(i) To
approve and regularize the fees to be collected by a person having
obtained License for providing the Telecommunications Service.
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(j) To
perform the functions relating to the frequency in accordance with
the policy determined by the Radio Frequency Policy Determination
Committee.
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(k) To carry
out or cause to carry out the research about the development and use
of new technology in the field of Telecommunications.
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(l) To cause
to develop the skilled manpower for the Telecommunications Sector.
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(m) To
develop and extend or cause to develop and extended the
Telecommunications Service in such a way that it protects the rights
and interests of the consumers.
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(n) To
develop or cause to develops Nepal as an International Transit for
Telecommunications.
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(o) To carry
out necessary and appropriate functions for the development and
promotion of the Telecommunications Service.
2.
NTA activities
during the month of Falgun 2064 (13 February 2008 - 13 March, 2008):
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2.1.
Mr. Ambar Sthapit, Deputy
Director, NTA completed an online training on "Spectrum Management"
held from 21 January to 29 February, 2008 in coordination with
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Center of
Excellence, Iran.
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2.2.
Assistant Directors of NTA
Mr. Surendra Lal Hada and Mr. Udaya Raj Regmi completed an online
training on "Mobile Number Portability" held from 21 January to 29
February, 2008 in coordination with International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) and Pakistan Telecommunications Authority.
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2.3.
Press Meet was organized
on 19th of Falgun 2064 (date in AD) on the occasion of tenth
anniversary of NTA.
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2.4.
Provisional Type approval
Certificate was issued for BCM94322MC, Broadcom 802.ag/draft802.11n
WLAN PCI-E Minicard to Broadcom Corporation under the Type Approval
Procedure formulated by the NTA.
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2.5.
Frequency spectrum in CDMA
800 MHz band is assigned to United Telecom Limited (UTL) for the
Deployment of Basic/limited mobility service in different parts of
the state including the rural areas.
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2.6.
Under the convenorship of
Mr. Nirmal Pradhanang (consultant) a Sub-Committee comprising of Mr.
Ambar Sthapit , Deputy Director (Engineering) and Mr. Min Prasad
Aryal, Assistant Director (Engineering) is formulated in order to
recommend the future actions to be taken including the allocation,
assignment, reforming (revision) of spectrum in 450 MHz, 900 MHz,
1800 MHz, 2100 MHz band for different cellular applications. It is
expected that the committee would submit the report as per the
specified ToR.
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2.7.
A RTDF Mobilization
Committee has been formed in order to accomplish the assignments
specified in the RDTF Disbursement Procedure By-Law and By-Law
regarding the selection of the Operators. The members of the
committee are: Mr. Bhesh Raj Kandel (Coordinator), Mr. Reg Bahadur
Bhandari (Member), Mr. Ramesh Adhikari (Member) and Mr. Min Prasad
Aryal (Secretary). The committee has started its work as per the
specified duties and responsibilities.
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2.8.
The
progress report for the month of Falgun of the Policy/Program and
Implementation plan for the fiscal year 064/065 of the Authority has
been sent to the Ministry of Information and Communication. As per
the report the number of unserved VDCs is 703.
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2.9.
Expression of Interest (EoI) evaluation report on the Capacity
Building for NTA has been submitted.
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2.10.
Terms
of Reference (ToR) have been developed for the South
Telecommunications Regulator’s Council’s (SATRC) working group on
VoIP regulation.
3.
Authority's
Major Decisions in the month of Falgun 2064 (13 February - 13 March,
2008):
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3.1.1.
The
Nepal Telecommunications Authority’s (working procedure related)
by-law first amendment 2064 has been approved.
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3.1.2.
NTA
member Mr. Tulasi Bhatta has been appointed to work for Judicial
Committee as per the clause 3(2) of the Nepal Telecommunications
Authority’s (working procedure related) by-law.
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3.1.3.
Mr.
Kailash Prasad Neupane, Deputy Director, NTA has been appointed to
work as registrar as per the clause 3 ka (1) of the Nepal
Telecommunications Authority’s (working procedure related) by-law.
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3.1.4.
In
relation to the Internet Telephony tariff published prior to NTA’s
approval by M/s Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd., decision has
been made as per the recommendation from the legal section.
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3.1.5.
As M/s.
Nepal Satellite Telecom Pvt. Ltd. has furnished all the details in
the reply in response to the Letter of Intent (LoI) issued by the
Authority, authority has decided to award Basic Telecommunication
Service license to it.
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3.1.6.
As
United Telecom Limited has requested a frequency band in the CDMA–800
Band, it has been decided to award 2 Channel [2 X (2 X 1.25MHz)] in
that band for now.
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3.1.7.
The
decision of the management to award 883-888 MHz Paired with 928-933
MHz Frequency to run service using MF-TDMA system to M/s STM Telecom
Sanchar Pvt. Ltd. dated 2064/7/20 has been approved.
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3.1.8.
The
management has been directed to submit the annual program and budget
for the next fiscal year by the end of Chaitra, 2064 as per the
three year interim plan of the Telecommunication sector.
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3.1.9.
With
Mr. Kumar Prasad Sharma, Deputy Director, NTA as the coordinator,
Mr. Ambar Sthapit, Deputy Director, NTA and Mr. Deeepesh Acharya,
Deputy Director, NTA has been directed to submit the first phase of
report within three months after completing work as per the rule 17
of the Telecommunication Act 2053 B.S.
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3.1.10.A
Sub-committee has been formed under the coordination of Mr. Nirmal
Pradhananga with Mr. Ambar Sthapit, Deputy Director, NTA and Mr. Min
Prasad Aryal, Assistant Director, NTA to submit a report within 30
days by formulating Channel Plan, Frequency Plan taking into
consideration the current allocation and assignment in the Cellular
applications of 450, 800, 900, 1800, 1900 / 2100 MHz Band CDMA, 3G (WCDMA),
GSM, EGSM, MF-TDMA technologies and International best practices.
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3.1.11.Recommendation
has been sent to the Ministry of Information and Communication Radio
Frequency Policy Determination Committee to make provision for the
testing of Microwave equipment in the 7.5 GHz band for a maximum
period of one year and the operator should send the test report to
the Authority after the completion of the test.
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3.1.12.Tariff
of IP Telephony of M/s Broadlink Networks and Communications Pvt.
Ltd. has been approved.
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3.1.13.Tariff
of IP Telephony of M/s Infocom Pvt. Ltd. has been approved.
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3.1.14.As
M/s. M/S Lal Sahu Distribution Pvt. Ltd. Singapore, Gilat Satellite
Networks Ltd. Israel & Square Networks Pvt. Ltd. Nepal have
furnished all the details in the reply in response to the Letter of
Intent (LoI) issued by the Authority, authority has decided to award
Rural Telecommunications Service (RTS) license in the unserved VDC's
of Far West, Mid West, Western & Central Development Region of Nepal
after the proposed M/S Smart Telecom Pvt. Ltd of the consortium is
duly registered.
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3.1.15.Tariff
of IP Telephony of M/s Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd. has been
approved.
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3.1.16.The
tariff of M/s Spice Nepal Pvt. Ltd. has been approved as below:
New Pre-paid Mobile Tariff of SNPL
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Incoming calls |
Free |
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Outgoing National Calls (pulse rate 20
seconds) |
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Mero to Mero |
Rs. 1.99 per min |
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Mero to Mero (Friends & Family number)* |
Rs. 0.99 per min |
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Mero to NDCL GSM/CDMA & UTL-LM (with
roaming) |
Rs. 3.99 per min |
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Mero to NDCL PSTN/CDMA-Fixed & UTL Fixed |
Rs. 3.49 per min |
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International Calls (pulse rate 20 seconds) |
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SAARC countries (Excluding India) |
Rs. 25 per min |
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Asia, /USA, other countries |
Rs. 50 per min |
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India, Peak(6am-8pm)/Off Peak(8pm-6am) |
Rs. 20/15 per min |
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Budget Call 1425/1445(Excluding SAARC
Countries) |
Rs. 25 per min |
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MMS |
Rs. 3 per message |
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All prices indicated in the table above are excluding all applicable
government taxes.
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* Friends & Family number can be any Mero Mobile
number.
3.1.17.While
providing GMPCS service by selling Inmarsat Service, the following
tariff rate has been approved:
All prices are in
US$ Service Packages:
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Service Components |
Anytime Plan* |
Standard Plan |
Essential Plan |
3. User Allowance
Packages(2) |
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3.a Entry user |
3.b Mid user |
3.c High user |
3.d Super user |
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Immarsat Service
components
Package Rate Plans |
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Activation charge |
39.00 |
39.00 |
39.00 |
39.00 |
39.00 |
– |
– |
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Monthly
subscription |
Free |
56.00 |
72.00 |
137.00 |
533.00 |
4,061.00 |
9,025.00 |
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Minimum duration in
months |
12 |
12 |
12 |
3 |
6 |
12 |
12 |
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Monthly inclusive
allowance – IP MB |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
20.00 |
100.00 |
750.00 |
2,000.00 |
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Monthly inclusive
allowance – Voice Minutes |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
30.00 |
200.00 |
300.00 |
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Run on IP charge
(in
addition to any inclusive usage) |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
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Out of bundle IP
per MB |
8.25 |
7.70 |
7.15 |
6.82 |
6.05 |
5.65 |
4.70 |
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Voice charges |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
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Voice rate to fixed |
1.27 |
1.27 |
1.27 |
1.27 |
1.27 |
1.27 |
1.27 |
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Voice rate to
cellular |
1.32 |
1.32 |
1.32 |
1.32 |
1.32 |
1.32 |
1.32 |
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Voice rate to other
MSS |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
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Voice rate BGAN to
BGAN |
0.94 |
0.94 |
0.94 |
0.94 |
0.94 |
0.94 |
0.94 |
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Voice rate
voicemail (notification is free of charge) |
0.97 |
0.97 |
0.97 |
0.97 |
0.97 |
0.97 |
0.97 |
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SMS charges |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
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SMS rate |
0.65 |
0.65 |
– |
0.65 |
0.65 |
0.65 |
0.65 |
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*Min 10MB of data airtime
must be paid everymonth for the anytime plan.
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*Government taxes extra.
3.1.18.Tariff
of SMS based content service of M/s Spice Nepal Pvt. Ltd. has been
approved as below:
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S.N. |
Short Code |
Partner |
Short Description |
Tariff per
SMS(NRs.) |
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1 |
3232 |
Entertainment Zone |
Color Wallpapers
Polyphonic Ringtones |
15.00 |
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2 |
3535 |
Ral tones,
Animations |
20.00 |
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3.1.19.Expert
Mr. Ramesh Adhikary has been appointed to the post of expert member
in the Rural Telecom Development Fund disbursement committee for a
period of two years.
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3.1.20.As
the Quality of Mobile (QoS) service provided by M/s Spice Nepal Pvt.
Ltd. and M/s Nepal Doorsanchar Company Ltd. is not found to be
fulfilling the parameters mentioned in the license after the
preliminary study conducted by the Authority and the deep public
dissatisfaction over the quality of service of mobile in recent
days, the meeting of the authority has decided to issue directive to
the operators to submit the details of the QoS they are providing at
present and if they are against the prescribed QoS, at what time
they will be able to provide service as per the prescribed QoS by
one month.
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3.1.21.The
draft license to be issued to the “Network Service” operators has
been approved.
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3.1.22.As
per the notice published in the national gazette on 10 Mangsir 2064
B.S. to convert the license of VSAT Network Service Provider and
Local Data Network to Network Service, it has been decided to issue
Network Service license to those operators who have been issued VSAT
NSP License and Local Data Network Service License prior to 18
Ashwin, 2064 B.S.
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3.1.23.The
Authority has decided to award Network Service License to M/s Subisu
Cablenet Pvt. Ltd. as per rule 24(2) of Telecommunication Act 2053
B.S. and approve the attached Tariff of the said service.
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3.1.24.Tariff
of IP Telephony of M/s AceCom Pvt. Ltd. has been approved.
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3.1.25.As
requested by the M/s Spice Nepal Pvt. Ltd. to add airtime charge of
Rs. 1.99 on the tariff approved earlier for International calls from
Prepaid Mobile, the Authority has decided to do so as per the
request.
4.
Relevant Acts
and Regulations:
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4.1.
Telecommunications Act, 1997 A.D. (2053 B.S.)
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4.2.
Radio
Act, 1958 A.D. (2014 B.S.)
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4.3.
Telecommunications Regulations, 1997 A.D. (2054 B.S.)
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4.4.
Radio
License Regulation, 1992 A.D. (2049 B.S.)
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4.5.
Telecommunications Policy, 2004 A.D. (2060 B.S.)
5.
Members of NTA:
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