As internet becomes more essential, complaints of poor service increases
Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, July 6 -- With tens of thousands of people watching the quarter-finals of the Euro 2020 football championship on the internet Friday night, total internet traffic through Nepal Internet Exchange reached 50 gigabytes per second (gbps), slowing the speed of internet connection for Nepali consumers.
This figure at any specific moment generally stands at 10 to 15 gbps, according to Indiver Badal, a board member of Nepal Internet Exchange.
Roughly 2,000 gbps of internet content is consumed every day in Nepal, much of it on watching videos . Of the 2,000 gbps, 80 percent traffic comes from servers that are in Nepal that provide international content like Google and Netflix, among others.