NTC Losses Millions in 2 Days due to Recharge Problem

August 8: Nepal Telecommunication Company (NTC) has occurred millions of rupees losses due to the problem in recharge system in the past two days. The recharge problem began from Saturday (August 6) morning. On Saturday and Sunday, 200,000 NTC users had faced problems recharging their phones. Currently NTC sells the recharge cards of Rs 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000. Basing on the Rs 100 to the average daily recharge, recharge of Rs 140 millions could not be made in these two days time.

According to Sub-Spokesperson of NTC Dilli Prasad Adhikari, users recharge their phones with NT recharge card at the average of 700,000 times a day. According to the telecommunication company, the problem has been solved after 3 PM on Sunday. However, due to the high pressure on system resulted by two days halt users were not able to recharge easily till the evening on Sunday. “The recharge system will start to become normal from Monday (August 8),” informed Adhikari.

NTC users recharge their phones at an average of Rs 250 per person per month. As per this statistic, the company earns Rs 16.66 per user in one day. This clearly shows that, NTC has lost the income of Rs 23.324 million from its 1.4 million subscribers in two day.