Technology

Split Profits

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1, 2007 (AFP) - Telecommunications giant Telekom Malaysia on Monday saw its share price jump by 11. online pharmacy buy abilify with best …

BPO Game

BANGALORE, India, Sept 30, 2007 (AFP) - India remains the favoured technology outsourcing destination, an industry report said Sunday, amid concerns a rising …

Last Lap

Sept 28, 2007 (LBO) – India's Mahanagar Telephone Nigan Limited (MTNL) has submitted a bid over 100 million US dollars for the Sri Lankan telco Suntel, …

Cell Value

Sept 28, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Dialog Telekom celco's Malaysian parent, Telekom Malaysia, has announced the spin off of its mobile phone business into …

Split Order

WELLINGTON, Sept 26, 2007 (AFP) - The New Zealand government on Wednesday ordered the country's dominant phone company Telecom to split into three units in a …

Chat Tax

Sept 25, 2007 (LBO) - Mobile users in Sri Lanka would pay a new 10 percent tax on call charges from today, a senior treasury official said Tuesday. The tax …

Cell Finance

Sept 24, 2007 (LBO) - International Finance Corporation, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank inked a 100 million financing deal Monday with Sri …

Cell Record

NEW DELHI, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - The number of Indian mobile phone subscribers has passed the 200 million mark after the country added another eight million …

Telco Suit

Sept 19, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lankan fixed wireless operator Suntel, a unit of Sweden's Telia, has said net profit for the first half ending June 2007 was up …

Mobile Deal

Sept 18, 2007 (LBO) – Bharti Airtel Lanka, a unit of India's Bharti Airtel Tuesday announced a 150 million dollar alliance with China's Huawei …

Slow Band

Sept 16, 2007 (AFP) - Home to some 1.5 billion people, South Asia is paying a high price to access the Internet as service providers have been slow to deliver …

Network Track

Sept 15, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is on track to complete computer networking of 200 government offices, the state information technology agency said. The …

Mobile Medicine

Sept 12, 2007 (LBO) – A service to channel doctors via mobile phones has won an international technology and customer service award, the ICT firms that …

Country Head

Sept 11, 2007 (LBO) – Bhart Airtel has appointed Olof Haag, a former Ericsson executive, as the country head for Sri Lanka, the company said Tuesday. …

Roaming Call

Sept 06, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lankan mobile operator Mobitel has launched two international roaming services for customers travelling overseas. One service …

More Cash

Sept 06, 2007 (LBO) – Massachusetts-based Virtusa Corp., an IT services firm with operations in Sri Lanka that raised 57 million dollars from a NASDAQ …

Regressive Tax

Sept 06, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has dropped a controversial fixed levy from mobile phones which would have hit the poorest phone users the hardest, but …

Fast Links

Sept 05, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom, the island's dominant fixed phone operator, has increased bandwidth to accommodate rapidly growing high-speed …

Electronic Trade

September 01, 2007 (LBO) - Millennium IT, one of Sri Lanka's key software developers, has secured the contract to automate the centuries old tea auction …

Top Job

September 01, 2007 (LBO) – The newly set up Bharti Airtel Sri Lanka unit had hired a top Unilever official to head its operation in the island, Lanka …