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Kathmandu Thursday June 14, 2001 Jestha 32, 2058.
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Phone service out of order in Kailali
Post Report
KAILALI, June 13- Tikapur is off the telephone since last
week, due to a technical flaw that creeped suddenly into the hi-tech telephone exchange
that was installed here only five months ago.
The first easily accessible telephone facility was provided
here in 1996 with the 150-line Indian C Dot technology. With increased local demand and
extending business activity, the exchange was augmented to 500 lines with the French-made
E-10-B technology. Right from the beginning, the new technology brought technical
problems.
Life in and around Tikapur has thus been paralysed following
the telephone break down since Friday. According to one consumer, though, the telephone
works well during the nights. The interruption in the telephone services have badly
affected the government offices and business units that resumed work after more than a
week following the royal tragedy.
Says the owner of a telephone booth at Tikapur,
"Commercial loss aside, it’s not much a pleasure to return people who happened
to have walked miles to make calls from here."
According to Regional Director of Nepal Telecommunications
Corporation, Baburam Pokhrel, the interruption in telephone services have partly to do
with the unpreparedness to deal with the new technology. "We couldn’t initially
even identify the flaw, let alone set it right," he said.
"All the same, we hope to rectify the error within the
next couple of days," Pokhrel said. He suspected some reasons behind the failure with
the microprocessor and excessive temperature, among others.
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