Friday, October 21, 2011

NTC planning to launch Apple iphone 4 (8GB) @ Rs 15,000 Only!!



Hi friends, you guys must have heard that Nepal Telecom is bringing iPhone 4 (8GB) to Nepal on contract. It seems to me interesting since I am an iphone developer and most of my friends are also excited about having iphones with cheap affordable price.

NTC and Apple Agreement
Once, NTC has tried to bring Blackberry Mobile to Nepal with itBES server integrated with ntc Carrier. But it failed due to lack of our carrier security and probably poor quality of signal strength of Nepal Telecom at that time.

After the failed attempt to bring Blackberry Mobile, largest telecommunication company of Nepal, NTC (Nepal Telecom Authority) is planning to introduce iPhone 4 (8GB) for Rs15000 (200$). According to the source, Apple and NTC have already signed the agreement for this process and it may be available within this year if everything goes fine.

Since we know that 16GB and 32GB iPhone are at high price, iPhone 4 with 8GB memory will be introduced by NTC for its customers. Some weeks ago Apple have announced that they will be introducing iPhone with less memory for promoting developing countries like Nepal to increase its market share. 

According to NTC Plan, to get an iPhone , subscriber have to sign a 2 year contract with NTC and pay Rs15000 to get iPhone. NTC will be selling this iPhone after locking the "NTC" carrier within the device. This scheme is most popular on different countries like in USA, where AT&T, Verizon sells carrier locked iphones on 2 year contract basis to  their customers.

Currently the price of iPhone 4 16GB is Rs55000+ in Nepali market, Rs 15000 for iPhone its not only cool but awesome.  I am looking forward for development of Apple product and iOS in Nepal.

Since Apple iphone is pretty cool gadgets for youngsters and business people it will definitely take great market share. I will be the first one to have it as soon as it arrives.

Challenges for NTC

The iphone is very sophisticated smart phone which uses high speed internet and great carrier services. In short, to maintain the quality standard with smart phone, the carrier service and other services like 3G, GPRS, etc also should be great and meet the standard. Following might be challenges for NTC:
  1. Enhance the Carrier strength even in the time of LoadShedding. (I hate "Error In Connection" Message by the way and Ah.. "No Channels are Available" )
  2. Provide high speed internet service, 3G and GPRS all over the country (not only inside Ring Road area). ( At Least must be competitive with NCell customers in terms of both data plan and service plan).
These are some basic feedback for NTC to enhance its service. If you guys have any feel free to add one in comment. I will add them in list.

Please go through my Post to know in detail about how life of Nepali people can upgrade with opportunities when we have iPhone 4 provided by Apple via NTC.
Thanks for reading and happy sharing. Hope within a year,  all interested iPhone fans would be using iPhone for entertainment and calls.

Why Should NTC Bring iPhone 4 To Nepal? - Business Growth Nepal

Hi friends,

I am very glad to hear that most of people are very interested to have iPhone 4 in Nepal in cheap rate via NTC. In this post I am going to write about why should NTC bring iPhone 4 to Nepal and how all Nepali would be benefited with it. So go on reading!

As we all know mobile development is developing and taking its space so fast in technical world that one can't avoid its existence. Without mobile devices we can't survive now a days. There are other mobile platforms also but Apple has been the most successful mobile platform in the world for past 5 years, its not a joke. Why people people prefer iPhone over android or Nokia? 

It's all due to the quality product that Apple has created with satisfied customers. And the "Quality Apps" that iphone users can buy in the iTune Stores. 

Nepal Not in iTune Stores

We always want most out of our mobile devices. Mobile devices used to be for calls only past 5 yrs ago but now almost every technical works can be done in mobile and we want more and more to get out of it. The iphone iTunes Store is a app store where users can buy the apps for their apple products like iPhone, iPod, iPad. The apps are of very great quality and we can do great things with these apps. In other word, these app makes your iphone more alive than just for phone call. 

But I was very upset when I found that our country "Nepal" is not listed in the country list of iTunes Store. So, we are not allowed to buy/sell apps in iTunes store which is like we are deprived of using its full services and participate in the business plan with apple to Sell apps. (Trust me selling these apps you will definitely make lot of money). It is even though possible but the process sucks. We can't easily do our work in our country and for doing these work we have to rely on other countries.... that is now very sad.

So, what I want is to recognize Nepal in iTunes Store and use their services in affordable rate. This can not be done by individuals, only NTC can do and I heartily request NTC administrators to consider this opportunity as serious issue so that 
  1. Our country "Nepal" is recognized in world wide via iTune Stores.
  2. We can use better and smart services from these technologies.
You know friends, what is differences between people who live in Nepal (developing) and USA (developed)? They both are talented. But in developing country like ours there are less opportunities and in abroad there are lot of opportunities. So, we always lay low in competition with them but that doesn't mean we are not capable. We are of course capable or may be much more capable.

Why NTC should bring iPhone in Nepal?
  1. Register our Country "Nepal" to iTunes Store which will recognize our country globally.
  2. Grow the development opportunities in Nepal (iPhone development).
  3. Economic upgrade of our country by the use of these opportunities.
These are summary points which is only screen cast. But the whole picture is much more enthusiastic and overwhelming. I can bet that mobile development will definitely generate higher revenues for government and development of Nepal. And the time of Mobile Evolution is coming so be prepared guys.

And finally, I have created a group in facebook "Nepal Telecom Should Bring Apple to Nepal". Please join the group. We will have our ideas shared and discussed in this group. Feel free to spread the information about the group.

Thanks for reading. Happy sharing, any thoughts please feel free to post it in comments below.

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