Kathmandu, May 2 -- Nepali private sector internet service providers (ISPs) have again warned that services could be disrupted as the government has not provided them foreign exchange to pay their foreign vendors from whom they source the bandwidth.

It has already been a year since Nepali ISPs defaulted on payments for upstream services.

The Nepali ISPs said that Indian telecommunications firms have once again warned to settle their dues or face consequences.

A former parliamentary Public Accounts Committee had a few years ago ordered the government that internet service providers should be exempted from paying taxes on non-telecom components like web service, co-location, hosted service, disaster recovery, managed service, data centre...