Category: Technology

Sept 23, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is to award a contract to provide broadband links to 500 rural schools by end 2008, expanding a network in which 1,100 public schools are already connected, officials said. To receive instant alerts from LBO on your Dialog mobile type ‘lbo’ and send to 678 Anura Dissanayake, director […]

Sept 18, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Mobitel, a unit of fixed access operator Sri Lanka Telecom says its customers would increase by 300,000 to 2.4 million by year-end with a package aimed at state-workers selling rapidly.Mobitel chief executive Suren Amarasekera says the firm is issuing over 10,000 connections a day following the launch of […]

Sept 12, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is starting post-graduate university courses using broadband mobile links provided by Mobitel, a celco, to remotely lecture students, officials said.The mobile learning of ‘mlearning’ system was developed by the University of Colombo, Mobitel and the IT firm Microsoft. “This is a hybrid system of learning, which includes traditional […]

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 09, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka incumbent mobile operators say the industry has healthy competition and are denying claims by new rival, India’s Airtel that anti-competitive practices in interconnection are keeping prices high.Sri Lanka’s Dialog, Hutch, Mobitel and Tigo says the country’s mobile penetration reached 38 percent at the end of 2007, which was […]

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 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 […]