Rule card · Nepal
Keep your Nepal Telecom number active while abroad
Keep a Nepal Telecom prepaid number active abroad: the GSM tariff sells validity in rupee bands. That page prints no freeze ladder.
Checked against official pages on September 28, 2026. Rules move; when this one does, it goes on the changelog.
Rule at a glance
prepaid accounts only- If you do nothing
- GSM prepaid tariff. Recharge-card Re. 50 prints 25 Days through Re. 1000 prints 690 Days. That page prints no one-way or two-way freeze
- Cheapest way to hold it
- A published recharge in a tariff band
- Roaming needed to receive codes abroad
- Unverified (The GSM service page's low-balance SMS sentence sits inside a roaming FAQ, not a home-network OTP rule)
- Twelve months away, roughly
- unverified as a published annual retention charge. Re. 1000 card prints 690 Days
Keep a Nepal Telecom prepaid number active abroad on the GSM prepaid tariff table. Validity is sold in rupee bands. The freeze ladder that news copy attaches to NT is not a sentence on this file.
Recharge cards, then MPoS
The GSM prepaid tariff prints recharge-card validity as five rows: "Re. 50" / "25 Days", "Re. 100" / "55 Days", "Re. 200" / "130 Days", "Re. 500" / "330 Days", "Re. 1000" / "690 Days". curl of that URL on 28 September 2026 returned the same rows in the SSR HTML. WebFetch of the same URL truncated the MPoS table at Re. 200 that day; the SSR copy is the rest of the bands.
"Recharge Validity for MPoS" on the same tariff starts lower: "Re. 20-29.99" / "7 Days", then "Re. 30-39.99" / "14 Days", "Re. 40-49.99" / "14 Days", "Re. 50-99.99" / "25 Days", "Re. 100-149.99" / "55 Days", "Re. 150-199.99" / "75 Days", "Re. 200-299.99" / "130 Days", "Re. 300-499.99" / "180 Days", "Re. 500-999.99" / "330 Days", "Re. 1000-above" / "690 Days". Re. 1000 meets the card cap. Re. 20 is a seven-day MPoS band, not an Ncell Rs 50 row.
Day 25 on this card is the Re. 50 recharge-card row. It is printed validity. It is not a deactivation day. The tariff page we opened does not print a one-way, two-way or freeze ladder, and it does not print a gone day.
The Kathmandu Post of 9 May 2026 describes NT as shifting into one-way mode when validity expires, then barring both directions after 30 days. That description stays on that newspaper. C-Phone (CDMA) prepaid is a different NT product. Its post-expiry recharge window is not this GSM Namaste table.
What the GSM service page prints
The GSM prepaid service page answers recharge while roaming: "You can use online service like e-Sewa, Khalti, Online Banking etc., to recharge from the country you are visiting." The same page also states: "Your relatives can recharge your mobile in Nepal by any method while you are travelling abroad." Those sentences name a medium. They are not a hold method.
The low-balance SMS line on the same page sits inside the roaming FAQ about not having enough balance: "However, you may receive SMS even if you don't have enough balance." roaming_for_sms on this card stays unverified. That sentence is not a home-network OTP rule.
Ncell's recharge page prints a 14-day outgoing interrupt after main-balance validity expires, and a 730-day cap at Rs 1000 and above. NT's Re. 1000 card prints 690 Days. The Nepal country page keeps leftover rupees off the number's clock.
Before you fly
- Pick a printed band. Re. 50 card is 25 Days. Re. 1000 is 690 Days.
- MPoS Re. 20-29.99 is 7 Days on the same tariff.
- Relatives, e-Sewa or Khalti can recharge from abroad. That is a medium.
- The low-balance SMS sentence is roaming. Whether codes arrive abroad is unverified.
- Kathmandu Post's one-way then 30 days is that newspaper, not this tariff.