International airlines companies can use telecommunications service in Nepali sky

April 1, Kathmandu: International airline companies can use internet and telecommunications service in the Nepali sky.

The Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), an autonomous telecommunications regulatory body, in coordination with the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), a civil aviation regulator, has granted permission for the use of internet and telecommunications service above 10,000 feet for international airlines companies in the Nepali sky.

A meeting of the Telecommunications Authority Board of Directors on 22 March took a decision in this regard. With this, Nepal is the third country to grant the service to international airline companies in South Asia behind India and Afghanistan. Those airlines having got permission from the International Civil Aviation Organisation would be granted permission to avail internet and telecommunications service above 10,000 feet in the Nepali sky, said the NTA’s spokesperson Santosh Poudel.

At present, three international airline companies have applied to the NTA for the service.