Category: Technology

April 24, 2009 (LBO) – Millicom International Cellular, the parent of Sri Lanka’s Tigo cellular network, says it may sell out of Asian units, despite getting new subscribers amid tough competition. Total revenues for the quarter were 846.0 million US dollars with 327 million coming from Central America, 236 million from South America and 171 […]

April 17, 2009 (LBO) – The pay TV business of Sri Lanka’s Dialog Telekom group will take time to become profitable, with break even estimated at around 250,000 customers, its chief executive Hans Wijayasuriya said. Losses in the pay TV business of the company, a unit of Telekom Malaysia, contributed to an annual group loss […]

April 10, 2009 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka’s top celco, has said short-term gains to consumers like lower mobile call rates from intense competition should not be allowed to erode the industry’s long term sustainability. “I feel the entry of new operators is always good for the consumer. It brings out the best in […]

April 07, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s top celco, Dialog Telekom says it had offered a voluntary retirement scheme to employees as part of a broader cost-cutting exercise, but the total costs were not known as yet. Dialog Telekom, a unit of Telekom Malaysia, as well as other operators have had revenues and profits hit […]

April 07, 2009 (LBO) – New technology that allows multiple telecom services to be delivered over a single network can sharply lower costs and make commerce greener, Hans Wijayasuriya, the head of Sri Lanka’s biggest mobile firm said. Wijayasuriya was addressing a Next Generation Networks (NGN) standardization forum in Colombo organised by the Telecommunications Regulatory […]

WASHINGTON, April 1, 2009 (AFP) – The United States began taking visa applications Wednesday for highly skilled foreigners, with lawmakers pressing to close the door to some of the long-coveted workers amid the recession.Robert Hoffman, a vice president at software giant Oracle and co-chair of Compete America, a coalition of tech companies lobbying to hire […]

Mar 31, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lankan teleco Lanka Bell and EPIC Lanka Technologies, an information technology firm has tied up to provide wireless point of sale terminals to acquire credit card transactions. EPIC Lanka is an 11-year old company dealing in secure electronic payments and information systems security. Lanka Bell operates a fixed access […]

Mar 30, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s software export industry said it is trying to promote the island as a BPO (business process outsourcing) destination for finance and accounting outsourcing (FAO). The Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM) and the Information and Communication Technology Agency recently held meetings in London and Barcelona […]

Mar 24, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will host an international telecom forum of network standardization in April together with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Union (CTO), the telecom regulator said. The forum will discuss trends and the future of networks within the context of sharing experiences on the standardization, architecture, […]

March 13, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s software industry has teamed up with the British Council to promote technology entrepreneurship among university students. The “Graduate Enterprise Challenge 09” is a contest aimed at grooming the next generation of ‘technology entrepreneurs’, the British Council and Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM) said in […]

Mar 13, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lankan fixed access telco, Lanka Bell has started two packages with batches of free outgoing minutes, intensifying competition in the fixed telephony sector, with market oriented pricing strategies, officials said. It has started a 1,000-minutes-free package for 999 rupees branded ‘Infinity Plus’, where the customer can call any time […]

Mar 09, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lankans low income customers of mobile communications, used phones least for business related activities in the region, potentially opening up a new marketing opportunity for celcos, a new study has found. “People who use phones for such activities have a higher income and people who don’t have a lower […]