KATHMANDU, Aug 23: The number of internet users has decreased by more than 26,000 within a month.
According to the MIS report of Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA), the number of internet users decreased in mid-May compared to mid-April.
In mid-April, there were a total of 26,73,471 customers of various service providers including wireless, cable and fiber.
In mid-May, this number was reduced to 26,47,379.
Around 13 million Nepalis use 4G internet services: NTA
Worldlink's customers have declined the most. The number of users of Worldlink was 771,000, but it was reduced to 752,000 in mid-April.
Dish Home Internet users have decreased by 11,022 and has reached 2,29,000. Likewise, the number of Internet users of Nepal Telecom has decreased by 1,424 and has reached 2,87,190.
The number of mobile phone users has also decreased by about 6 percent. In mid-April there were a total of 35,891,719 mobile phone users, but in mid-May the number of such users decreased by 2,054,000.
In mid-May, the number of mobile phone users was 33,837,513.
This is also because the license of Smart Telecom has been canceled. Earlier, 2.4 million people were using mobile phones with this SIM.
Similarly, the use of SIM cards of Nepal Telecom (NTC) and Ncell also decreased by more than 210,000.
In mid-May, the number of mobile phone holders using SIM cards decreased by 192,853 and reached 20,364,717. The number of CDMA and GSM SIM users of Nepal Telecom was 21,171,864 in mid-April.
The number of mobile phone holders using Ncell SIM has decreased by 17,382 and has reached 13,472,796.
The number of mobile and internet users has decreased by a huge margin within a month mainly due to the economic recession and increasing migration of young people abroad.
