Nepalese Internet service provider WorldLink has announced plans to build 14 data centers across Nepal over the next three years.
The ISP aims to have at least one data center in every one of the country’s seven provinces. Its Kathmandu data center will reportedly be the largest and will be Tier III certified, while the remaining facilities will be Tier II certified.
The company says it will invest Rs 3 billion ($25.6 million) over the next three years to deliver the carrier-neutral facilities. The company says it will start with the Kathmandu facility.
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Helping improve Nepal's Internet speeds
"Nepal is also witnessing exponential growth in Internet traffic with robust growth in the use of digital services. Therefore, for a better Internet experience, there is a need of having servers locally, to store the content as near as possible,” said WorldLink CEO Keshav Nepal.
“With these IDC [Internet data center] facilities, everyone will get Internet content faster, cheaper, and more reliably. Even the government and private organizations will find a very secure and reliable world-class facility to host their digital contents and cloud infrastructure.”
Founded in September 1995, WorldLink is the largest Internet and Network Service Provider in Nepal. The company currently offers colocation, hosting, and private cloud services from its data center in Pulchowk, Lalitpur, to the south of the capital city Kathmandu.
The data centers are reportedly part of the Government’s Digital Nepal Framework strategy to modernize and introduce more digital services to the country in order to drive economic growth. Other elements of the framework include increased spectrum availability and 5G deployment as well as a national optical fiber network.
