Kathmandu, State-owned Nepal Telecom has suffered infrastructure damage worth Nepalese Rupees 88 million after Bhotekoshi floods damaged its mobile, wireline and transmission networks in three affected districts.
Minister for Information and Communications Bikram Timilsina told the House of Representatives on Wednesday that services at 83 of Nepal Telecom’s 120 sites in the three districts were disrupted by the floods. Infrastructure at three sites Trishuli-3 ‘B’, Chilime Khola and Timure was completely destroyed, he said. The total damage to mobile wireline and backbone transmission infrastructure stands at NPR 88.512 million, according to the minister. Timilsina said 37.9 km of Nepal Telecom’s 65.3-km fibre network in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading was damaged. Of this, 27.4 km has already been repaired.
Services from the Timure-based tower were restored this week after solar power equipment was transported to the area by helicopter, the minister said.
