Worldlink Communications, the third-largest telecom company in Nepal, has announced its partnership with the world’s biggest social networking site, Facebook, to expand Express WiFi service in various public places of Nepal. Express Wifi comes either free for some data volume or time to the customers. They have successfully integrated 7,500 express WiFi access points at the end of August.
Express WiFi by Facebook is currently present in 8 countries that include only two countries in Asia: India and Nepal. Worldlink signed a contract with Facebook in 2019. Following the association, Worldlink arranged free WiFi service at Dasarath Stadium for SAG games in December 2019. After achieving 7500 locations, Worldlink has planned to expand free Wifi to 30000 locations within 2023.
Worldlink announced about the partnership in a virtual conference, which was conducted in the presence of Dileep Agrawal, the Chairman and Managing Director of WorldLink, Keshav Nepal, the CEO of Worldlink, Laxman Yadav, the Corporate affair Director of Worldlink. Similarly, other officials who were present are Samit Jana, the Chief Technical Officer at Worldlink, Punit Manandhar, the Technical Manager of Worldlink, and Karan Kharra representing Facebook. They talked about the benefits of such a partnership with Facebook and its significant impact on the connectivity and digitalization in Nepal.
Worldlink claims they have now 5 lakhs (0.5 million) customers who rely on their public WiFi internet service. Currently, Worldlink has made its internet service available in 73 districts and aims to cover all parts of the country.
Express WiFi aims to contribute to Worldlink’s vision of connecting mass, anywhere, and anytime with fast, affordable, and reliable internet service.
Source: https://www.nepalitelecom.com/2020/10/worldlink-facebook-partnership-express-wifi.html