Country Report Nepal
Introduction
Ubiquitous and cost-effective public and private broadband networks are as important today as telecom networks were in the previous decade. Absence of inexpensive non dial-up option is a major stumbling block for a country’s overall growth. Recognizing the potential of ubiquitous broadband service in the growth of country’s GDP and enhancement in the quality of life through societal applications including tele-education, tele-medicine, e-governance, entertainment, as well as employment generation by way of high speed access to information and the web-based communication, the government has to finalized a policy to accelerate the growth of broadband services.
The government should decide the country’s broadband policy that would define the broadband services, broadband rates, and its regulation, monitoring and implementation issues in the country. This will make uniformity in the broadband rate, cost and services in the country and enhance the service quality and accelerates the broadband infrastructure development in the country. Broadband services, in general, defined as “An ‘always-on’ data communication that is able to support interactive services including internet access and has the capability of the minimum download speed of 256 Kbps to an individual subscriber for the point of presence (POP)” The broadband policy should visualizes the creation of infrastructure to support high bandwidth applications, through various access technologies, which can contribute to growth and can mutually co-exist.
Drivers for Broadband
1. Evolution of web-based communication application related to information, data and multimedia services 2. Remote data backup and cloud computing facilities 3. Video conference and telemedicine 4. Real time online game, video on demand, digital TV and HDTV.
The following Chart shows the different applications required for the customers and bandwidth requirements. The scale is plotted in Logarithmic
Ubiquitous and cost-effective public and private broadband networks are as important today as telecom networks were in the previous decade. Absence of inexpensive non dial-up option is a major stumbling block for a country’s overall growth. Recognizing the potential of ubiquitous broadband service in the growth of country’s GDP and enhancement in the quality of life through societal applications including tele-education, tele-medicine, e-governance, entertainment, as well as employment generation by way of high speed access to information and the web-based communication, the government has to finalized a policy to accelerate the growth of broadband services.
The government should decide the country’s broadband policy that would define the broadband services, broadband rates, and its regulation, monitoring and implementation issues in the country. This will make uniformity in the broadband rate, cost and services in the country and enhance the service quality and accelerates the broadband infrastructure development in the country. Broadband services, in general, defined as “An ‘always-on’ data communication that is able to support interactive services including internet access and has the capability of the minimum download speed of 256 Kbps to an individual subscriber for the point of presence (POP)” The broadband policy should visualizes the creation of infrastructure to support high bandwidth applications, through various access technologies, which can contribute to growth and can mutually co-exist.
Drivers for Broadband
1. Evolution of web-based communication application related to information, data and multimedia services 2. Remote data backup and cloud computing facilities 3. Video conference and telemedicine 4. Real time online game, video on demand, digital TV and HDTV.
The following Chart shows the different applications required for the customers and bandwidth requirements. The scale is plotted in Logarithmic