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 …
Technology
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 …
Techy Production
August 31, 2007 (LBO) - MAS Intimates, a division of Sri Lanka's MAS Holdings specializing in lingerie, has won a top award by the enterprise resources …
Fast Downlink
August 30, 2007 (LBO) -- The US Agency for International Development has teamed up with local and international partners to launch over a dozen of high speed …
Double Talk
August 22, 2007 (LBO) – Hutchison Telecom's Sri Lanka celco has doubled operating profits in the first half of 2007 and doubled subscribers in the past …
Undersea Link
August 21, 2007 (LBO) – Indian telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is to increase charges on a submarine cable link with Sri Lanka Telecom …
Narrower Margin
August 18, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the island's only wireline operator, has reported 45 percent lower profits in the June quarter as it …
Bring it on
Aug 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's top celco Dialog Telekom said it was not worried by the entry of Indian mobile giant Bharti Airtel which is set to start …
Mobile Action
August 15, 2007 (LBO) – Bharti Airtel was aiming to launch commercial operations in Sri Lanka early next year investing 200 million dollars in the …
Cyber Tea
August 10 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Tea Board has successfully completed the pilot run of an automated export document processing system that can speed up …