About NTC "Nepal telecom "

Nepal Telecom (NT) is the leading and the largest telecommunication company of Nepal. It is officially named Nepal Doorsanchar Company Limited (NDCL). It was a former government corporation known as Nepal Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) with monopoly in telecommunication services in Nepal. It was converted to a public limited company on April 14, 2004. NT has sold around 10% of its share to local market and company's employees in 2008. Nepal Telecom was the only provider of basic telephony services in Nepal until United Telecom Limited started providing services in 2003.


The Central Office of Nepal Telecom is located at Bhadrakali, Kathmandu. It has branches, exchanges and other offices in 184 locations within the country. It is the sole provider of PSTN, ISDN and Leased-Line services in Nepal. Following the entry of [Ncell] into Nepal's telecommunications industry in 2005, it is no longer the only provider of GSM service. With around 6,500 employees, it is one of the largest corporations of Nepal. It has a total of 243 telephone exchanges in various part of the country serving 559,380 PSTNlines, more than 4.5 million GSM cellular phones and 1 million CDMA phone line as of July 2011. According to recent data,[1] there are about 6 million users of NTC including all those of GSM, CDMA and PSTN.