Category: Technology

TEHRAN, Oct 9, 2006 (AFP) – Ever wanted the mobile number 123456789?In Iran it can be yours, if you have tens of thousands of dollars to spare. The Islamic republic’s telecommunication officials have decided to auction off hundreds of catchy number sequences and use the profits to shore up the cumbersome Iranian mobile phone network, […]

October 7, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s deadly ethnic conflict is possibly the biggest challenge that is holding down the business process outsourcing industry’s growth, as an escalation in violence spooks foreign clients, a new industry study shows. The South Asian Island had a head start by opening its telecommunications industry in the early 1990s, […]

NEW DELHI, India, Oct 7, 2006 (AFP) – The body representing India’s booming outsourcing business insisted Saturday that the country was a safe place to do business following a British TV news sting showed alleged call centre fraud.Britain’s Channel 4 aired a documentary Thursday purporting to show how the data of thousands of British customers […]

October 4, 2006 (Dow Jones)–Sri Lanka’s two listed telecommunications companies are poised for record profits this year as the country’s low penetration levels and the new products on offer continue to lure subscribers, offsetting the impact of higher interest rates and any possible slowdown in the economy. Analysts expect Sri Lanka Telecom shares to rise […]

October 02, 2006 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom has picked up a radio and television frequency license, which gives them the edge to rollout a host of infotainment services ranging from television to mobile phone services. A unit of Telekom Malaysia, Dialog picked up the frequency by acquiring a 90 percent stake in Asset Media (Pvt) […]

October 02 2006 (LBO) – Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has sold over 5,000 handsets equipped with Sinhala language settings and keypads, since they were launched in Sri Lanka last week. Sri Lanka South Asian to offer mobile technologies way back in 1989, and the current 4-million subscriber market is split between Dialog […]

September 28 2006 (LBO) – India’s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Thursday officially kicked off a 1.8 billion rupee undersea cable unit with Sri Lanka Telecom, which will bring down call rates between South Asian countries. The optical fibre cable, which run between Mt Lavinia (Sri Lanka) and Tuticorin in India, will enable SLT customers to […]

Sept 26, 2006 (LBO) – Japanese telco NEC Tuesday inked a deal with Sri Lanka’s Steuartel (Pvt) Ltd to sell its cellular handsets in the local market. “We hope to cater to the medium and the high end market with phone units made in Japan. Phones at entry level will be priced at 11,900 rupees […]

September 26, 2006 (LBO) – Cisco Systems, the world’s leading supplier of network equipment and solutions, hopes to double its sales in Sri Lanka as local banks and telcos keep pace with IT trends. Having earlier serviced Sri Lanka as an extension of its Indian operation, Cisco now has a fully fledged office here, after […]

Sept 22 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan telecom firm shifted its call centre out of the capital to a lower-cost central region of the island, in a trendsetting move that other firms could follow to their advantage. Suntel, unit of Sweden’s Telia which runs a wireless fixed network in the island, shifted its customer service […]

Sept 20 (LBO) – Payphone operator Tritel Services Limited said Wednesday it would slash outgoing call charges by 33 percent, expanding reach into rural markets. œOur priority focus is on rural communities as well as the less affluent urban community who find fixed telephony and mobile services too expensive and out of their reach, Ananth […]

Sept 20 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Millennium Information Technologies (MIT) said Wednesday it had developed an automated trading system for the Nairobi Stock Exchange. Live trading began on September 11 with the new system, resulting in record trading volumes of 3761 trades compared to 759 trades on the same day the year before, MillenniumIT said […]