Fast Downlink
August 30, 2007 (LBO) -- The US Agency for International Development has teamed up with local and international partners to launch over a dozen of high speed …
Technology
Double Talk
August 22, 2007 (LBO) – Hutchison Telecom's Sri Lanka celco has doubled operating profits in the first half of 2007 and doubled subscribers in the past …
Undersea Link
August 21, 2007 (LBO) – Indian telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is to increase charges on a submarine cable link with Sri Lanka Telecom …
Narrower Margin
August 18, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the island's only wireline operator, has reported 45 percent lower profits in the June quarter as it …
Bring it on
Aug 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's top celco Dialog Telekom said it was not worried by the entry of Indian mobile giant Bharti Airtel which is set to start …
Mobile Action
August 15, 2007 (LBO) – Bharti Airtel was aiming to launch commercial operations in Sri Lanka early next year investing 200 million dollars in the …
Cyber Tea
August 10 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Tea Board has successfully completed the pilot run of an automated export document processing system that can speed up …
Tele Rating
August 9, 2007 (LBO) – Standard and Poor's (S&P) has upgraded the outlook on Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) from negative to stable while affirming its 'B+' …
Prized Project
Aug 08, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan ICT project using a digital, interactive educational content system in the Sinhala language aimed at developing …
3G Link
August 07, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's top celco Dialog Telekom, a unit of Telecom Malaysia, said Tuesday it had launched a third generation (3G) …
Call Forward
August 06, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan mobile phone operator has called for the introduction of 'number portability', saying that consumers would benefit …
Walkie Talkie
August 2, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan celco is rolling out a mobile payphone system for rural communities that have limited access to telecommunications …
Missed Call
August 02, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka should unilaterally liberalise its telecommunications sector even further and update outdated regulations to avoid …
Digital Divide
July 31, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's government ICT Agency has expanded its telecentre network to 400 points all over the island to help communities improve …
Flat Profits
July 26, 2007 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka's largest celco saw consolidated net profits dip by a marginal 3 percent in the June quarter as start-up …
Middleware Spot
July 13, 2007 (LBO) – The open source middleware technology company WSO2 says its products generated wide interest at the SOA World software conference …
IT Literacy
July 13, 2007 (LBO) – India has pledged 13 million rupees to set up 20 computer education outlets called 'Nenasalas' in villages in Sri Lanka. Nenasalas, …
Phone Charges
July 10, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom has said it plans to switch to a time-based tariff structure from a unit-based one as part of a court settlement …
Court Call
July 9, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's telecom regulator has proposed slashing home rentals by 24 percent and call charges by over 8 percent, in a consumer …
Tech Tour
July 06, 2007 (LBO) – A delegation from Sri Lanka's information technology companies will attend the IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) summit in …