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The telecom regulator of Nepal has instructed all the Internet service providers (ISPs) to remove all the crypto trading platforms from operating there. The Nepalese authorities have also instructed its residents against participating in crypto activities.

India has been ranked 131st on Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index for mobile internet and placed 70th on the index for fixed broadband speeds for the month of September. In the mobile internet speed department, the country has slipped two positions when compared to last month, with an average download speed of 12.07Mbps. On the fixed broadband speed ...

A 36-year-old Indian man has been arrested in Nepal for illegally operating call bypass on international calls that caused a loss of millions of rupees to the Himalayan nation's telecom department, police said on Sunday.

A man died and two were injured in a bomb attack outside a telecom company office in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepali police said Saturday.

Nepal has joined hands with China to offer internet services to its citizens, officials said on Friday, ending India's decades-long monopoly of the Himalayan nation's cyber connectivity network.

India is ranked 76th for fixed broadband speeds globally, according to November data from Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index.

Canadian smartphone firm BlackBerry today said it has inked a pact with Optiemus Infracom for manufacturing BlackBerry Android handsets in India. This follows Apple Inc, which has decided to start manufacturing its popular iPhone in Bengaluru. Blackberry have also decided to make phones locally in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. The exclusive, lon...

Without reliable telecommunications, disaster zones quickly become overrun by confusion and costly mistakes.

About 20,000 people and even security personnel deployed beyond the Hill-town of Dharchula in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand along the India-China border are dependent on Nepal Telecom to communicate, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju has written to defence and telecom ministries.

While it will take months to rebuild other infrastructure, communications networks are quickly being reestablished.

The Red Cross and a Nepalese telecom firm launched an emergency texting service on Monday to send out real-time updates on aid distribution and weather warnings across the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation.

Meant to help restore communications in the earthquake-hit region, it can connect up to five mobile phone users to global telecoms networks within a radius of 100 metres.

"I have directed officials to take steps to restore communication lines in Indo-Nepal border," Telecom Minster Prasad said on Saturday.

Over 2,000 people have died in Nepal in the aftermath of Saturday's earthquake that measured 7.9 on the Richter scale.

Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked Department of Telecommunications (DoT) Secretary Rakesh Garg to take stock of the damage to telecom network in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh due to the earthquake and initiate measures to restore the network.

The telecom regulator of Nepal has instructed all the Internet service providers (ISPs) to remove all the crypto trading platforms from operating there. The Nepalese authorities have also instructed its residents against participating in crypto activities.

India has been ranked 131st on Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index for mobile internet and placed 70th on the index for fixed broadband speeds for the month of September. In the mobile internet speed department, the country has slipped two positions when compared to last month, with an average download speed of 12.07Mbps. On the fixed broadband speed ...

A 36-year-old Indian man has been arrested in Nepal for illegally operating call bypass on international calls that caused a loss of millions of rupees to the Himalayan nation's telecom department, police said on Sunday.

A man died and two were injured in a bomb attack outside a telecom company office in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepali police said Saturday.

Nepal has joined hands with China to offer internet services to its citizens, officials said on Friday, ending India's decades-long monopoly of the Himalayan nation's cyber connectivity network.

India is ranked 76th for fixed broadband speeds globally, according to November data from Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index.

Canadian smartphone firm BlackBerry today said it has inked a pact with Optiemus Infracom for manufacturing BlackBerry Android handsets in India. This follows Apple Inc, which has decided to start manufacturing its popular iPhone in Bengaluru. Blackberry have also decided to make phones locally in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. The exclusive, lon...

Without reliable telecommunications, disaster zones quickly become overrun by confusion and costly mistakes.

About 20,000 people and even security personnel deployed beyond the Hill-town of Dharchula in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand along the India-China border are dependent on Nepal Telecom to communicate, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju has written to defence and telecom ministries.

While it will take months to rebuild other infrastructure, communications networks are quickly being reestablished.

The Red Cross and a Nepalese telecom firm launched an emergency texting service on Monday to send out real-time updates on aid distribution and weather warnings across the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation.

Meant to help restore communications in the earthquake-hit region, it can connect up to five mobile phone users to global telecoms networks within a radius of 100 metres.

"I have directed officials to take steps to restore communication lines in Indo-Nepal border," Telecom Minster Prasad said on Saturday.

Over 2,000 people have died in Nepal in the aftermath of Saturday's earthquake that measured 7.9 on the Richter scale.

Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked Department of Telecommunications (DoT) Secretary Rakesh Garg to take stock of the damage to telecom network in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh due to the earthquake and initiate measures to restore the network.