Kathmandu, April 27 -- Out of the more than Rs8 billion owed to Indian upstream service providers, primarily Tata and Airtel, only around Rs1 billion has been paid by Nepali internet service providers over the past two years.

WorldLink Communications has received a recommendation for foreign currency exchange and has made a payment of approximately Rs1 billion as the first instalment, according to Sudhir Parajuli, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of Nepal.

Parajuli said that the government is delaying the recommendation for foreign currency exchange until all outstanding taxes are cleared.

Although taxes for the previous fiscal year have already been paid, the recommendation has been stalled due to unpaid taxes ...