Telephone tariff hiked
Nepal Telecommunications Corporation has revised telecommunications tariffs with effect from Tuesday. As per the revised tariff, the monthly charge for 175 calls is Rs 200. The rate for extra calls has been retained at Rs 1 per call. The time limit for a call is from two to eight minutes. As for international calls, tariff has been fixed by classifying calls into three categories from 0 to 50 km, 50 to 200 km and above 200 km instead of the previous five categories. The minimum tariff has been fixed from Rs 1 to 9 on the basis of distance and time. Likewise, the monthly rate for mobile telephones has been fixed at Rs 500. The maximum tariff for one outgoing call per 15 seconds has been fixed at Rs 1 and one incoming call per second at Rs 0.50 per second. After studying the proposal presented by the corporation for telephone and mobile phone tariffs in July last year and April this year, Nepal Telecommunications Authority has approved the revision of tariffs, it is stated in a press release issued here on Tuesday. According to the approved new tariff, the tariff for South Asian countries including India has been retained at Rs 75 per minute.