MAP > Internet Providers in Nepal

The fixed broadband market has been gaining momentum in this country. Over the last few years, some efforts have been made to be able to expand the telecom sector in Nepal, which have gone on and met so many challenges. Fixed-line market in Nepal has remained underdeveloped. The major reason for this has been due to the dominance of the mobile segment. Nepal Telecom has started the process of switching the existing PSTN landline service to the IP based network to be able to have the advanced voice, data as well as the TV services over the upgraded fixed networks.

Market has been predicted to grow only a bit more, over the coming years to the year 2023 as mobile segment progresses to grow for both the voice as well as data usage. The fixed broadband penetration in this country have remained low, and this is mainly due to the limited number of the fixed lines as well as subsequent dominance of the mobile platform. Also, the declining number of the fixed lines has been restricting the development of the fixed broadband. But, the market has developed over the past five years from the small base. In the coming five years, to the year 2023, there is expected a very strong growth.

The fixed broadband penetration has been predicted to be able to reach 4% by the year 2023. The local government has envisioned digital society. In here, they expect 90% of the total population that they are going to have access to the broadband services, and this is by the year 2020. China Telecom and the Nepal Telecom recently went ahead and interconnected across Nepal’s Northern part of the border with the Tibet via the Mix of the underground as well as the all-dielectric self-supporting fiber optic cabling.

Nepal’s mobile market has been extremely developed, and it has been able to experience extraordinary huge growth over the past six years. Slow growth has been predicted over the coming five years to the year 2023. The market is going to be a bit constrained from the higher development due to the strong local competition as well as the fast maturing market. Nepal has enjoyed a rapid increase in the mobile broadband penetration over a period of the last six years that is being driven by the rising level of the 3G as well as 4G subscribers. But the mobile broadband market is still at very early stages of growth with the penetration being below most of the other Asian markets.