I can sympathise with companies like UTL and also Nepal Telecom for being cut off for a while ('India concerned on UTL restrictions', #241). However, I believe that UTL has also not been dead honest or legal in using their loop system. They haven't been permitted to operate their phones as mobiles, which they have been doing. UTL should brush up on its own ways of functioning in their host country before jumping too soon to criticise our government, especially in times of emergency.

LK Chaudhary,
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