Category: Technology

Aug 13, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Hutchison Telecom International unit lost subscribers in the June 2009 quarter, but the firm is continuing network expansion that will see 65 percent population coverage by the end of the year, the company said. Hutchison said subscriber dropped to 536,000 by end June from 772,000 in March. In […]

Aug 13, 2009 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom, a unit of Malaysia’s Axiata and the island’s top celco said it lost 7.6 billion rupees in the June 2009 quarter on a 6.0 billion rupee one-off write-down of older network equipment. Dialog Broadbband, a fixed and broadband unit had shown revenues of 556 million rupees.Group revenues fell […]

Aug 11, 2009 (LBO) – Luxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular which has put its Asian units on sale will sell 58.4 percent stake in its Cambodia unit to The Royal Group, its local partner, the company said.The stake in CamGSM will go for 346 million US dollars, valuing the unit at 605 million US dollars or […]

Aug 12, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Telekom has activated the first phase of a network expansion into former war-torn areas in the north of the island, which may cost up to 10 million US dollars, officials said.“We have connected the first six sites, and we will build 60 more towers in tandem with […]

Aug 12, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) said it has inked a deal with Mireka Capital Land (Pvt) Ltd, a large commercial and residential property project, to provide telecom services including fibre optic supported broadband facilities.Mireka Capital Land is a joint venture between Overseas Realty (Ceylon), a unit of Singapore’s SP Tao group, […]

Aug 12, 2009 (LBO) – Dubai-based EZY Infotech said it has launched their first computer made in Sri Lanka, a slim desk-top machine powered by Intel Atom technology. EZY Infotech set up a fully-automated manufacturing plant in February 2009 in the suburb of Ratmalana south of Colombo to make computers bearing the ˜Manufactured in Sri […]

Aug 10, 2009 (LBO) – Profits of Sri Lanka Telecom group, fell 75 percent to 375 million in the June 2009 quarter, while revenues stayed flat at 11.74 billion rupees, with growth in data and mobile sectors, the company said. Operating costs rose 26 percent to 7.39 billion rupees, partly on account of Mobitel network […]

Aug 06, 2009 (LBO) – Lankapedia, a newly launched Sri Lanka specific site styled on the popular Wikipedia portal, is setting the stage to make user generated content about the island more popular, officials said. “I think user generated content is the future,” says Rohan Samarajiva, head of LirneAsia, a regional think tank that has […]

Aug 05, 2009 (LBO) – India’s Bharti Airtel is planning to bid for Sri Lanka’s Tigo network which has been put on sale by its parent, Millicom International Cellular, a media report said. “Millicom’s Asian assets are potentially interesting for VimpelCom, because they are based in the region that VimpelCom views as the main strategic […]

Aug 03, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s low costs has helped it to be ranked among the top 20 global outsourcing destinations for information technology and business process outsourcing (IT/BPO), an industry body said in a statement. The A T Kearney report points out that Sri Lanka has advantages considering its proximity to India, and […]

Aug 01, 2009 (LBO) – Software giant Microsoft’s Sri Lanka unit, in the news because of widespread piracy here and its high product prices, is focused on spreading computer literacy to grow its business at double digit rates, officials said. The proprietary software maker, whose operating systems run 90 percent of computers worldwide, only has […]

July 30, 2009 (LBO) – Emirates Telecommunications Corporation or Etisalat is scouting for investment opportunities in Sri Lanka’s fast growing telecom sector after the end of its decades long ethnic war, a top official said. Millicom officials have not commented on individual firms that are in the bidding process except to say that several firms […]