Technology

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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 …

Tele Rating

August 9, 2007 (LBO) – Standard and Poor's (S&P) has upgraded the outlook on Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) from negative to stable while affirming its 'B+' …

Prized Project

Aug 08, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan ICT project using a digital, interactive educational content system in the Sinhala language aimed at developing …

3G Link

August 07, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's top celco Dialog Telekom, a unit of Telecom Malaysia, said Tuesday it had launched a third generation (3G) …

Call Forward

August 06, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan mobile phone operator has called for the introduction of 'number portability', saying that consumers would benefit …

Walkie Talkie

August 2, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan celco is rolling out a mobile payphone system for rural communities that have limited access to telecommunications …

Missed Call

August 02, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka should unilaterally liberalise its telecommunications sector even further and update outdated regulations to avoid …

Digital Divide

July 31, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's government ICT Agency has expanded its telecentre network to 400 points all over the island to help communities improve …

Flat Profits

July 26, 2007 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka's largest celco saw consolidated net profits dip by a marginal 3 percent in the June quarter as start-up …

Middleware Spot

July 13, 2007 (LBO) – The open source middleware technology company WSO2 says its products generated wide interest at the SOA World software conference …

IT Literacy

July 13, 2007 (LBO) – India has pledged 13 million rupees to set up 20 computer education outlets called 'Nenasalas' in villages in Sri Lanka. Nenasalas, …

Phone Charges

July 10, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom has said it plans to switch to a time-based tariff structure from a unit-based one as part of a court settlement …

Court Call

July 9, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's telecom regulator has proposed slashing home rentals by 24 percent and call charges by over 8 percent, in a consumer …