Category: Technology

Dec 13, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s investment professionals body has tied up with the island’s software trade group to promote finance business process outsourcing, a statement said. SLASSCOM wants to help the IT-BPO industry increase export revenues. The deal aims to exploit growing demand for Sri Lankan financial professionals from BPO and information technology […]

Dec 10, 2010 (LBO) – Dialog Axiata, Sri Lankan’s largest mobile firm, said a service which provides a virtual marketplace and delivers prices from key produce markets in the island has won a global award for mobile commerce. ‘Dialog Tradenet’ uses mobile text, voice and internet to deliver price information which is useful especially for […]

Dec 09, 2010 (LBO) – The removal of a tariff floor by Sri Lanka’s telecommunications regulator could see the resumption of a price war that led to loss among mobile phone operators, Fitch Ratings has warned in a report. “Dialog also benefited from reduced tariff pressure within the mobile industry and its strong market share […]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 8, 2010 (AFP) – Amazon will make its Kindle electronic books available for reading on Web browsers beginning early next year, with people’s digital collections saved in the Internet “cloud.” Amazon executives on Tuesday showed off “Kindle for the Web” at a Google press event introducing a new, swifter version of the […]

Dec 06, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan police found pirated software worth 7.5 million rupees in raids on an ‘international group of companies’ as part of a crackdown on software piracy, a statement said. Shalini Ratwatte, consultant, Business Software Alliance, said intellectual property protection “is vital for building investor confidence and supporting the growth of […]

Dec 06, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom has reduced call charges and phone rentals and offered reductions for customers who chose packages with broadband and IPTV bundled together with voice services, a statement said. Those with broadband and IPTV services bundled into their packages are offered lower rates, the SLT statement said. SLT, the […]

Dec 01, 2010 (LBO) – Computer students from Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna University an area that was caught up in a three decade war has visited software and outsourcing firms in the island’s capital, for the first time in 20 years. Two lecturers had also accompanied the students. One lecturer had said that it was […]

Nov 29, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s mobile subscribers grew 24.3 percent in the third quarter of 2010 from a year earlier, while fixed access sector grew at a much slower 3. 4 percent, official data show. During the past 12 months 3.2 million mobile users have been added according to data released by the […]

Nov 29, 2010 (LBO) – Lanka Bell, a Sri Lankan wireless fixed access operator using CDMA (code division multiple access) technology controlled by listed Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka has been offered for sale. Suntel, a unit of Sweden’s Telia, Sri Lanka’s other fixed-access-only operator has also had talks with possible buyers. The telco was […]

Nov 25, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s cable TV firms are facing a crippling tax that may put all of them out of business, following the imposition of a new ‘teledrama’ tax that has already hit terrestrial ‘free to air’ channels. Industry officials say the cable TV industry would not be able to survive if […]

Nov 23, 2010 (LBO) – A change in telecom taxes in the 2011 budget where a 20 percent flat levy replaced a series of earlier taxes can result in lower bills for users, a telecom analyst said. “So even users of international calls may not be very much affected. ” Before the budget, a series […]

Nov 23, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has imposed new taxes on telecommunication including a 20 percent tax removing some of the existing ones, a regulatory license fee equal to 2. 0 percent of revenues and has also imposed a new tax on international calls. From July 2011 the minimum call rate of 2. 0 […]