KATHMANDU, JUN 18--There is a good news for Nepal Telecom (NT)’s pre-paid mobile users who spend less in telecom service. The company has decided to increase the validity period of the balance recharge for its CDMA and GSM pre-paid mobile service effective from Wednesday.
The validity period for recharging the balance by Rs 50 has been incrased to 30 days from 7 days. Similarly, the validity for recharging the balance by Rs 1,000 has been increased to two years from one year. The validity period for recharging the balance by Rs 100, Rs 200 and Rs 500 has been increased to 60 days, 140 days and 360 days respectively.
Customers and the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) had for a long time been pressuring the NT to increase the validity period saying that the existing time limit was too short. The company in its press release state that the new provision will allow low-spending customers to get service for a longer time.
The new validity period will be applicable to balance recharges done through scratch cards and mobile point of sales (MPoS) which is also known as pin-less top-up. The MPoS system allows NT pre-paid mobile users to recharge their balance through authorised retailers of NT.
Over 95 percent of NT’s GSM mobile users use the pre-paid service. Its subscriber base amounted to 7.12 million as of mid-March 2013. An NT board meeting held early this month had decided to increase the validity period of recharging the balance. The short lifespan of recharges had remained as one of the major problems for low-spending cell phone owners who maintain a small balance and use their sets mostly to receive calls.
Recharge Amount New Validity Old Validity
Rs 10 5 Days 1 Day
Rs 20 10 Days 2 Days
Rs 30 15 Days 3 Days
Rs 40 20 Days 4 Days
Rs 50 30 Days 7 Days
Rs 100 60 Days 20 Days
Rs 150 90 Days 35 Days
Rs 200 140 Days 60 Days
Rs 300 200 Days 90 Days
Rs 500 360 Days 180 Days
Rs 1,000 730 Days 360 Days
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