Nepal Telecom, the government-owned telco has selected VNPT (Vietnam Post and Telecommunication) for their IPTV service. VNPT is a telecommunication company which is owned by Vietnam Government. VNPT has several subsidiaries like VinaPhone: a telecom operator and VASC: a software development company.
Nepal Telecom (NTC) had called a Global tender to provide IPTV service to its customers, a couple of months ago. With the Global competition, VNPT succeeded to grab the deal by collaborating with Kalash. Ntc and JV of VNPT-Kalash had inked a deal for the IPTV service on October 14, 2019.
VNPT had also attended the Nepal Investment Summit 2017 to seek opportunities to supply IT services and solutions to Nepal. After 2 years of their interest, they could partner with the largest telecom operator of Nepal for the video service.
As video content is already a big thing for the telecom industry, telcos are pushing to tap into this new opportunity. Due to the proliferation of OTT applications like Viber, Skype, WeChat, Google Duo, etc, Telcos are under pressure to offset the loss of revenues from their core services like Voice.
Some of the telcos develop their own platform for the TV and video service while some collaborate with the already available platform for such service. As known, Ntc will use the platform of VNPTV to provide the broadcast TV, Video on Demand services.
Within four months period, they will bring in the required hardware, software to integrate its platform in the Nepal Telecom system. After this, Ntc can deliver the IPTV service to their FTTH and mobile (3G, 4G) subscribers. Ntc IPTV platform provides a combined solution for IPTV, Web TV and mobile TV (app). Nepal Telecom is currently expanding their 4G service, with a target to reach every nook and corner soon.
Source: https://www.nepalitelecom.com/2019/10/nepal-telecom-selects-vnpt-iptv-video.html