The government is preparing to fix the minimum speed of broadband connection at 512 kilobytes per second (kbps) through the broadband policy, which is in the pipeline. This means a customer having broadband internet should not be provided speed less than that from its service provider.
As the government has neither defined broadband nor specified what the download and upload speeds have to be, internet service providers have the liberty of providing service by defining broadband speed on their own.
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Every year, the metropolis earmarks a fragment of its annual budget to introduce a progressive IT-based system which will strengthen the e-governance. KMC officials said they are now committed to making this shift to the IT system. “We are in process of transition from governance to e-governance. This will ease service delivery and relieve the consumers,” said Rabin Man Shrestha, an official at the KMC.
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Prime Minister Sushil Koirala inaugurated the portal while marking PPMO´s eighth anniversary at the Prime Minister´s Official Residence in Baluwatar on Tuesday.
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Chiniya Lama, assistant health worker at the centre, said that 20 cancer patients are availing themselves of the service that only requires a working computer and Internet connection. “We got started six months ago. Now, the patients like Surya Laxi can have direct interaction with the doctors in the capital, explain the problems they are having and get the right medical advice,” he said.
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) has already directed Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) - the telecom sector regulator -- finalize the draft as per the format provided by it.
“The draft will be endorsed within 45 days. We have already asked NTA to fianalize it soon,” Suman Prasad Sharma, secretary of MoIC, said.