Nepal ended India’s Internet monopoly
Nepal officially ended India’s Internet monopoly. The country has started using a new backbone connectivity after Nepal Telecom and China Telecom Global launched their services. The construction finished in August 2017, and was followed by a series of testing. Difficult mountainous conditions delayed the laying out of the new cable by several months.
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