Crowdsourcing Nepal’s Prosperity A Media Ecology Strategy for Development Using ICT4D and Mobile4D Prepared for the founding meeting of Synergy Nepal International 7/13/2010 by Jan Herder 3 Dimensional Environments for Emergence http://www.3de4e.com http://www.facebook. com/#!/SynergyNepal
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Crowdsourcing Nepal’s ProsperityA Media Ecology Strategy for Development
Using ICT4D and Mobile4D
Prepared for the founding meeting of Synergy Nepal International 7/13/2010by Jan Herder 3 Dimensional Environments for Emergencehttp://www.3de4e.comhttp://www.facebook.com/#!/SynergyNepal
Teledensity rate in Nepal 20.45%Nepal Telecom’s subscriber base has pushed up the penetration rate from 10.12% to 13.28%. This has led to increase in country’s teledensity rate to 20.45%.
In the first eight months, NT, Nepal’s largest telecom company, distributed 705,469 additional GSM mobile phone lines, taking up the number of NT’s GSM cell phone subscribers to 2.42 million. It also reported 206,016 additional CDMA phone lines in the first eight months. NT is intending to distribute two million additional GSM phone lines and 462,000 CDMA lines within this fiscal year.
“In the next two years people can see more people using mobile phone service even in the rural areas,” Amar Nath Singh, Chief of NT, reportedly said. “We are also actively pursuing the task of installing VSATs to operate mobile phone services in remote places,” he added. www.WirelessFederation.com/news:
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