Comms Down
PARIS, December 19, 2008 (AFP) - Internet and telephone communications between Europe, the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three …
Technology
Comm Link
PARIS, December 20, 2008 (AFP) - A French ship on Saturday took experts to repair broken undersea Mediterranean cables that caused severe disruption to …
Berry Boost
Dec 16, 2008 (LBO) – Dialog Telecom, Sri Lanka's largest telco, says the introduction of Blackberry mobile devices has boosted productivity at Brandix, a …
Tele Rate
Dec 01, 2008 (LBO) – Fitch Ratings has confirmed Sri Lanka Telecom's 'B+' long term foreign currency credit rating, with a stable outlook, and says it is …
Tele Performance
Nov 28, 2008 (LBO) – Profits of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) group, the island's largest fixed access carrier, fell 31 percent to 1,235 million rupees with …
Street Fight
Nov 23, 2008 (LBO) – Top Sri Lankan celcos are slashing prices ahead of the entry of a fifth operator to the market, in a street fight that analysts say …
Small Talk
Nov 13, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Dialog Telekom group, a unit of Telekom Malaysia, has reported a loss of 192.4 million rupees for the September 2008 …
Tele Tax
Nov 07, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has made a new 10 percent telephone tax technology neutral by extending it from mobile phones to fixed lines as a part of …
Net Billing
Oct 29, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan fixed access provider Lanka Bell said it would pay subscribers that receive overseas calls 50 cents a minute, setting the …
Two Sides
Oct 25, 2008 (LBO) - The global economic crisis may reduce information technology outsource work for companies in Sri Lanka but at the same time generate new …
LBR-LBO ICT Forum
Oct 17, 2008 (LBO) - Advances in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) could help companies, especially mid-sized ones, to improve and gain …
Cheaper Calls
Oct 15, 2008 (LBO) - South Asian telecommunications regulators meeting for a regional conference in New Delhi, India will today discuss lowering roaming …
Budget Broadband
Oct 15, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's celcos are looking at ways to sell broadband services in small chunks, to reach cost-conscious customers, who do not …
Executive Skills
Oct 14, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s first-ever reality television game show, Path Breakers, is to modify its format and concept this year to …
IBM Push
Oct 08, 2008 (LBO) – Midware Technologies, a Sri Lanka IT firm has been appointed a distributor of IBM Software group to drum up business in Sri Lanka …
Unsolicited ID
Oct 04, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is to issue electronic identity cards with transponders which authorities can use to identify fishermen at sea and also develop …
Digital Identity
Oct 01, 2008 (LBO) - E-Wis, a Sri Lankan information technology firm which has been picked to automate a pension fund of a state-managed private sector …
Slim Prices
Sept 30, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Dialog Telekom, a unit of Telekom Malaysia said it had bagged five million subscribers, started per second billing and cut …
Soft License
Sept 24, 2008 (LBO) - The Sri Lanka unit of Toroid, a Scandinavian transformer maker has licensed Microsoft software for its factories in an export processing …
Fast Links
Sept 23, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is to award a contract to provide broadband links to 500 rural schools by end 2008, expanding a network in which 1,100 public …