To point out some thing, internet (and lot of telecom) is mostly limited to the cities, mainly the capital Kathmandu. Secondly, there are fibers going through

To point out some thing, internet (and lot of telecom) is mostly limited to the cities, mainly the capital Kathmandu. Secondly, there are fibers going through different parts of the country [0] but the country itself doesn't have much access to it. (Don't ask me, some politics are beyond me.Something to do with India and China both wanting to be the one influencing the region). Third, Nepal Telecom used to be run by the Nepal government so they inherited all the legacy hardwares but hasn't upgraded it too much. Ncell owns a lot of the cellular infrastructure.[1] They probably feel like their customers can afford this data or they want other companies to bare the costs (im guessing). The article points to information from this other site [2] which seems inaccurate. For example, world link [3] is one of the better internet service provider and one of the first to provide cable internet. (I use to have a blazing 64kbps adsl unlimited line that worked from 9 pm to 6 am. Ah, good days). worldlink used to even have a server for youtube and some other google stuff. But I guess wikipedia was trying to make the data free for mobile i'm guessing? tl;dr I don't blame Ncell if its only on them to provide free service. ------------- [0] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/china-links-nepal-with-optical-fibre-to-end-india-dependence/articleshow/52706038.cms http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/busin... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncell [2] http://www.ktm2day.com/2015/02/20/internet-access-reaches-to-one-third-population-in-nepal/ http://www.ktm2day.com/2015/02/20/internet-access-reaches-to... [3] https://www.worldlink.com.np/ https://www.worldlink.com.np/