Category: Technology

Sept 09, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has a ‘digital president’ who is strongly backing the spread of information communications technology (ICT) in the country, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) chief Toure Hamadoun said.Sri Lanka now had 44 percent mobile penetration, which was double that of India. It was the first country in South Asia to […]

Sept 09, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka top celcos firms said they will connect more people by finding ways to lower costs, despite rising inflation and taxes on mobile calls hitting the pockets of poorer sections of society. Anoja Obeysekere, from Sri Lanka’s Dialog Telekom, who is the chairperson of the Asia Pacific GSM Association, […]

Sept 08, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is planning an optical fibre backbone to take broadband internet access to rural areas of the island, with the infrastructure to be built as a public private partnership, an official said.Sri Lanka Telecom, the island’s largest fixed access firm has been laying fibre optic ring around the capital […]

Sept 08, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka cellco Mobitel, a unit of fixed access carrier Sri Lanka Telecom is readying to call proposals to buy international bandwidth from cheaper suppliers, because its parent was too expensive, an official said.“We are not happy with the prices they extend to us,” Mobitel chief executive Suren Amarasekera told […]

Sept 05, 2008 (LBO) – An iconic telecom tower to be built in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo may cost about 10 billion rupees (92 million US dollars) and the government wants to make it a private-public partnership, an official said.The government has said the tower could be used by television, radio and telecom firms to […]

Sept 03, 2008 (LBO) – Retaining skilled information technology professionals is critical for Sri Lanka’s corporate sector when planning business continuity and disaster recovery, according to experts in the IT field. “IT is the backbone of retail systems.Hardware, technology or environmental issues would be a huge risk and would affect the continuity of the business,” […]

WASHINGTON, September 2, 2008 (AFP) – Google plans to launch Tuesday its own Internet browser, opening up a new challenge in cyberspace to Microsoft and its dominant Internet Explorer. The California-based Web search leader said the new browser, called Google Chrome, would “add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on […]

Sep 01, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka would be hosting the Asia Pacific conference on digital mobile telecommunications from September 07, which celebrates 21 years of Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) standard, Dialog Telekom said. The 20th GSM Asia Pacific Conference of the GSM Association is titled ‘Beyond 21’ “The conference aims to draw […]

Aug 28, 2008 (LBO) – Microsoft is training Sri Lankan migrant workers in information technology skills to improve their employability and keep in touch with their families at low cost, the IT giant’s Sri Lanka office said.Microsoft says its five day IT training course is also expected to become a compulsory addition to a two-week […]

Aug 28, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will build a state-sponsored 250 metre tall common broadcast tower for television, radio and telecom firms, information minister Anura Yapa said.All telecom operators would be allowed to use it for a fee. To receive instant alerts from LBO on your Dialog mobile type ‘lbo’ and send to 678 […]

Aug 21, 2008 (LBO) – Business Software Alliance (BSA) has appointed an attorney-at-law to support action against piracy in the software market in Sri Lanka, where nine out of ten programmes are unlicensed. The world wide rate for piracy is lesser at 38 percent or 47 billion dollars, Chan said. “The BSA anti piracy campaign […]

Aug 20, 2008 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka unit of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecom says its mobile subscribers in the island will drop after correcting an “overstatement” and tighter government registration rules in 2008. Revenue in the six months to June had risen 3.5 percent to 89 million Hong Kong dollars from 86 million dollars […]