Category: Technology

Feb 05, 2010 (LBO) – Anusha Palpita, head of the government’s information office has been appointed Sri Lanka’s telecom regulator, minister Anura Yapa said. Palpita will be the director general of Sri Lanka Telecom Regulatory Commission in addition to his duties as director of information. Priyantha Kariyapperuma, the previous regulator, resigned on Tuesday

Feb 05, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Airtel said appointments with doctors could be made through its network following a tie-up with the e-channelling. com, a web based medical channelling service. Doctors could be channelled by both post paid and pre-paid customers by dialling 225. Chief Executive of Bharti Airtel Lanka, Amali Nayakkara said in […]

Feb 03, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s software industry has launched a campaign to draw information technology and business process outsourcing work mainly from small and medium firms in the United Kingdom and Europe, an industry body said. The Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM) said in a statement it was aiming […]

Jan 15, 2010 (LBO) – Hutchison Telecom International’s Sri Lanka unit will stay with the group, with new investments planned to increase coverage, while the parent is being de-listed from the Hong Kong stock exchange, an official said. Sri Lanka’s mobile market is shared between Dialog Telekom, a unit of Malaysia’s Axiata, Mobitel a unit […]

WASHINGTON, January 15, 2010 (AFP) – Microsoft said Thursday that a security vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser was used in cyberattacks which prompted Google to threaten to shut down its operations in China. Reavey stressed that Microsoft “has not seen widespread customer impact, rather only targeted and limited attacks exploiting (Internet Explorer 6).” Changing […]

HONG KONG, January 8, 2010 (AFP) – Hong Kong ports-to-retail conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa on Friday offered to take its loss-making telecoms subsidiary private in a deal valued at 545 million US dollars. The group, headed by tycoon Li Ka-shing, said the proposal to take over Hutchison Telecom would allow it to manage the troubled firm’s […]

Dec 30, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s telecom regulator has begun investigations on broadband speeds advertised by telcos after a private research study found them exaggerating available bandwidth to surfers, a senior official said. Sri Lankan telcos deliver 75 percent of advertised speeds in the last mile of the network. LIRNEAsia said broadband providers in […]

Dec 29, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is the most uncertain market among South Asian countries for new telcos, while Pakistan has the most transparent process for entry and spectrum, despite high fees, a study has found.“Pakistan is the most expensive to enter in South Asia, but it’s the most transparent,” Helani Galpaya, chief operating […]

Dec 22, 2009 (LBO) – Two Malaysian telecom firms have expressed interest in taking part in a communications satellite project promoted by Sri Lanka’s telecom regulatory commission, a top official said.Sri Lanka wants to launch a geo-stationary satellite in the next three years, at an estimated cost of some 150 million US dollars and has […]

Dec 18, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is planning a space project with a British firm in a 150 million US dollar deal that could see a satellite launched into a geo-stationary orbit above the island in 30-months, an official said. The so called Clarke orbit, named after science fiction visionary Arthur C. Clarke is […]

Dec 17, 2009 (LBO) – Mobitel, a unit of fixed access provider Sri Lanka Telecom said it has successfully tested and launched a high speed broad band technology that will double peak download rate that can be offered on its mobile network. The upgraded high speed packet access (HSPA) technology uses multiple antennas in both […]

Dec 17, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is looking at setting an interconnection rate of around 60 cents a minute for mobile operators from February next year, the regulator said, as the industry was gripped in a price war. “We are looking at 60 cents a minute,” director general of Sri Lanka’s telecom regulatory commission […]