Deepak Mani Dhital Acting General Manager

Nepal Television

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Country status

Broadcasting and Telecommunication Policies in Nepal

Digitization progress in Broadcasting

Related useful websites

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Located between longitude 80o4' & 88o12' and between latitude 26o22' & 30o27'.Nepal borders with the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China in the North and India in the East, South and West respectively. Nepal is land locked country.Nepal has been a member of SAARC(South Asian Association for regional Cooperation) since 1993.

Official name: Nepal.Population: 28.951 million, around 3.5 millions in Kathmandu.Capital: Kathmandu. Area: 1,47,181 sq. km.Religion: 90 % HinduGovernment type: DemocraticDemocracy day: Falgun 7 (Feb)Official Language: Nepali

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Office of Prime Minister Mount Everest

Parliament Bouddha Nath Pashupatinath

Lumbini

Nepal is among the lowest in Per-Capita GDP terms and least developed countries with almost one-third of its general population living under the poverty line.

Nepal has considerable scope for exploiting its potential in hydropower and tourism.

Natural Resources: quartz, timber, hydropower, tourism beauty, small deposits of lignite, copper, cobalt, iron

Currency: Neplese Rupees 1USD = 71.75 NRS GDP Growth (Constant Prices, National Currency) 4.661 % GDP (Current Prices, US Dollars) US$ 12.615 Billion GDP Deflator 165.435 (Index, Base Year as per country's

accounts = 100) GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, US Dollars) US$ 522.00

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GDP (PPP), US Dollars US$ 33.643 Billion GDP Share of World Total (PPP) 0.048 %

DP Per Capita (PPP), US Dollars US$ 1,205.27 Implied PPP Conversion Rate 28.828 Inflation, Average Consumer Prices (Indexed to Year 2000)

168.131 (Index, Base Year 2000 = 100) Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) 13.226 % Inflation, End of Year (Indexed to Year 2000) 175.556 (Index, Base

Year 2000 = 100) Inflation (End of Year Change 11.425 % Current Account Balance (US Dollars) US$ 0.536 Billion Current Account Balance (% GDP) 4.252 %

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SOURCE: NTA,April 2010.

Fixed Line: 826,571(PSTN 581,699,WLL 244,372)

Mobile: 6,828,468 (GSM 6,150,305,CDMA 678,163

Limited Mobility: 332,808 GMPCS: 1,742 WCDMA,3G: 1,925 Total : 7,991,014

Peneration rate: Fixed Line: 2.95% Mobile: 24.35% Others: 1.20%

Total Penetration rate: 28.50 %

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Dialup (PSTN+ISDN) 28863 Wireless, Optical Fiber 13000 Cable Internet 32500 ADSL 33780 GPRS 749929 CDMA 1X 85160 Total 943232

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Rural PCO 1,989 No. of Unserved Village Development Committee

(VDC) 235 No. of Served Village Development Committee

(VDC) 3,680

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Millions of dollars were invested in Telecomm. 40% of households have telephony service, fixed

and/or mobile service. 5 % of households have Internet service.

Standard speed is 128 Kbps, cost it from USD 10 to 15 monthly.

8 % of households have at least one computer. There are 235 VDC, still there are not telecom

services.

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Nepal Telecommunication Authority is responsible for making policies for telecommunication.

Ministry of Information and Communication is acting as the Broadcasting authority.

Digital switchover date has been proposed for 2015 in Nepal.

Some of the policies implemented by NTA are -Universal Access to the Telecommunication

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Universal Service Obligation Development of Corporate Service Liberalization of the Telecommunication

Sector Open Licensing Regime to be Applied Private Sector's Participation to Be

Encouraged To enter into Information Society

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Appropriate Information and Communication Technology for the Users of Ruralareas

Persons Who Have Engaged in the Development Activities Shall Be Caused to Use Information and Communication Technology Fully

Commercialization of the Nepal Telecommunication Corporation

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Institutional Development of Implementation of Policy

Economic Efficiency of the Telecommunication Sector

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It has been proposed to adopt DVB-T for digital terrestrial transmission, DVB-C for digital cable and DVB-S for satellite transmission.

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Cable TV There is around 400 cable TV provider in the

country. Major Cable TV provider of the country has

already started digital cable as a test transmission.

Their target is to switchover completely within 2 years

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Radio There is around 200 FM Radio stations and only

national AM radio in the country. Radio Nepal has regional radio transmission

throughout the country. Radio has been proposed to switchover to DAB

and they are working on it.

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Televisions There are around 15 satellite channels,2

regional terrestrial channels in the country. National television channel, Nepal Television

has terrestrial transmission through VHF band covering 72% of the people and 50% of the land, Second channel of Nepal television (NTV Plus) is also expanding its terrestrial coverage.

Some Private channels also has terrestrial transmission through UHF band but they are limited to certain region

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ITU is assisting Nepal for switchover from analog to digital terrestrial transmission.

Experts team from ITU is visiting Nepal in near future

It has been proposed to start digital terrestrial transmission from phulchowki by the end of 2011as a test transmission.

This will cover Kathmandu valley and surroundings which will be around 20% of the population

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It has been planned to switchover all analog transmission in the phased manner by the end of December 2015

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Television Channels in Nepal are going to change analog workflow to digital tapeless workflow in the phased manner.

Private channels of the country has already started semi tapeless workflow environment

Nepal Television has planned to acquire complete tapeless workflow within 3 years

Nepal television will implement ingest system, storage system and playout system by the end of this year 2011.

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Media Asset Management, digital achieves, Automation, Server based editing system will be implemented next year 2012.

NRCS and complete tapeless workflow will be implemented by the end of 2013, Camcorders will be updated to storage card based recording system.

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Ministry of Information Communications ◦ www.moic.gov.np

National Information technology Center:◦ www.nitc.gov.np

High Level Committee for information technology hlcit.gov.np

Nepal Telecommunication Authrity:◦ www.nta.gov.np

Broadcasting and Telecommunication Companies:◦ www.ntc.net.np◦ www.ntv.org.np◦ www.radionepal.org

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