October 12 : Nepal Telecom (NT), the state-owned telecom service provider, has announced its festive offer on voice, SMS and data services as part of a promotional campaign. This offer is specially targeted at Dashain, Tihar and Chhath festivals.

With the festive offer, a SIM/RUIM card which is priced at Rs 200 at present will come at just Rs 90, including a talk value of Rs 50.

Similarly, NT is offering a 10% discount on its call rate. After discount, GSM/CDMA prepaid will cost Rs 1.35 per minute and Rs 0.90 per minute for GSM/Postpaid.

NT users will get free SMS equal to the no of SMS they sent a day earlier. Moreover, the customers will get 200 MB and 300 MB data with the validity of 1 week for GSM and CDMA respectively at just Rs 50 from 20^th October to 26^th October and 11^th -17^th November. GSM/CDMA postpaid users will get 50 MB free data from 15^th October to 14^th November.

Fixed Line users will get 100 calls free on monthly rental charges. NT has extended the validity of ADSL/WiMAX and new WiMAX packages have been introduced. Moreover, Short Code 1400 service which used to cost Rs 1 per SMS will be free after 11^th October.