LATEST TELECOM

SCENARIO IN NEPAL

PUBLISHED BY: NEPAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY

PRESENTED BY: SPARROW SMS

CONTENTS

o LATEST TELECOM PENETRATION SCENARIO

o HOW ARE PEOPLE CONNECTED?

o NEW SUBSCRIPTION

o NTC vs Ncell SUBSCRIPTION

o MARKET SHARE OF VOICE TELEPHONY

o INTERNET PENETRATION SCENARIO

o HOW DO PEOPLE CONNECT TO INTERNET?

o CONCLUSION

LATEST TELECOM PENETRATION

RATE

Penetration Rate (% ofpopulation)

93.69

Total Population of Nepal: 26.5 million

People Connected by Telephones: 24.82 million

93.69%

HOW ARE PEOPLE

CONNECTED?

Mobile

Fixed

Limited Mobility Devices

84.03%

3.13%6.53%

* Of the 93.69%

CHANGES FROM THE

PREVIOUS MONTHJULY-AUG JUN-JUL NEW

SUBSCRIBERS

Mobile 84.03% 83.23% 211,956

Fixed 3.13% 3.13% -

Limited

Mobility

6.53% 6.32% 55,638

TOTAL SUBSCRIPTION –

GSM and DATA

Ncell

3.99

million

NTC

9.18

million

Ncell

11.97

million

NTC

4.52

million

VOICE TELEPHONY MARKET

SHARE

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

45%

48%

4% 1 % 2%

INTERNET PENETRATION

SCENARIO

Dialup

Wireless Modem

Cable Modem

ADSL

GPRS, EDGE

CDMA,EVDO

WiMax*

95%

Of the 33.76%

2%

0.16% 1.28%

0.35%0.72%0.11%*

INTERNET PENETRATION: 33.76%

INTERNET/DATA SERVICES

MARKET SHARE

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

1% 1%

OTHER ISP’S

53%

45%

CONCLUSIONo Penetration is on an increasing trend

o 267,000 more subscribers in just one month!

o NTC has done well marginally (Managed to increase its market share by 1%)

o Ncell is still the market leader in voice telephony, but NTC has more data service users

CONCLUSION

o However, many SIM cards are still inactive. Hence, 93.69% may not indicate actual penetration

o The study also uses same population figure for all months

o And there are many people who have access to different forms of internet services all at once –Hence, actual internet penetration rate may be different