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Sri Lanka`s first mobile phone firm enters areas controlled by Tamil rebels
Wednesday, 8 March 2006 - 8:50 PM SL Time
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Sri Lankan mobile phone company Celltel announced plans to invest 100 million dollars to bring services to the island`s embattled northeast, but not in areas controlled by Tamil rebels.
Celltel, which launched an analogue network in 1989 to become the first phone company in South Asia to go cellular, said they will add 500 new base stations in the north and east such as the port district of Trincomalee within three months.
The service however will not reach the northeastern town of Kilinochi, controlled by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who have waged a separatist conflict since 1972 that has claimed more than 60,000 lives.
Celltel Chief Executive Officer Dumindra Ratnayake said he expected a 50 percent increase in their subscriber base with the latest expansion that would cost them 100 million dollars this year.
`With this latest investment, our total investment in the country would be about 200 million dollars,` Ratnayake said.
He said by the end of 2005 there were about three million mobile phone users in the country which has four cellular networks that keep prices low to attract subscribers
In March 2004, Sri Lanka became the first country in the region to introduce 3G, or third generation, mobile phones, which allow high speed data transmission and video streaming.
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DrAkai
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8 Mar 2006 15:07:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Its good that we can directly talk with our Tiger friends and know how their future plans in the joint development projects to be a country like Singapore.
We may see direct video conversations aired between Pirapa and Mahinda. |
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8 Mar 2006 15:35:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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I think Sri Lanka is acquiring technology much faster than some of the developed countries. SL introduced GSM technology more than decade ago. Again we have VoIP technology. Very recently Blackberry founder RIM has started business in SL with Dialog.
SL has much advanced fancy phone than North America. |
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8 Mar 2006 15:41:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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MaKaSo
we are fast but not that fast.Blackberry was in asia for last few years with GSM/GPRS.now srilanka is getting into it with GSM/GPRS but Blackberry moved from GPRS to EDGE in europe , america , china,as well as going to be in India . |
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8 Mar 2006 15:41:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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MaKaSo
Yeah its called 'combined and uneven development'. Its part and parcel of how the global economic system works. Developing countries don't retrace the same road to modernization as the developed countries. So we see such oddities as you pointed out - cellphones with higher tech than in North America being used on a paddy field with a buffalo plow. We have to start making more of this stuff. Thats the only way we can have a more all-round development. |
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8 Mar 2006 15:46:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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DrAkai,
It is very important to create an environment of trust between both party,i.e VP vs MR and Sinhalese vs Tamils , this is not the Colombo tamils because they can manage the Sinhalese forces .by the way Tamils Must receive some type compensation attitude from sinhala chauvinist. |
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8 Mar 2006 16:07:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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MaKaSo,
How are you mate? I guess being a techno man you may be the man to respond my query. When I went to SL last time they didn't have broadband but something similar with a possibility of 512kbps speed. What is that and how would you differentiate that with broadband? Is that procedure similar to the broad band we use here in the europe?
Guess, you have an aswer to me.
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8 Mar 2006 16:14:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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MaKaSo
?SL has much advanced fancy phone than North America.?
..mmm
All phone company release different model to Europe and North America separately and some of them incompatible with bandwidths.Blackberry founder RIM released two model for GSM/GPRS/EDGE Quad band support one model is 8700r and the other is 8700c. R stand for Rogers and c singular network. both has mostly the same features with minor different with own bandwidths.
RIM investing in Srilanka is a good news becaseu blackberry is stroming the wolrd Executives and is a very efficient products with out it implausible product one you start to use it.what we must start with higher Tech than buying an old tech.As long as RIM does not sell blackberry model 7290 and lower good for us. |
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8 Mar 2006 16:20:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ok let change topic from Srilanks to Complanka.
need to know the diffrence between .
windows vs linux
oracle vs mssql
ibm vs oracle vs ms
edi vs cdi
as2 vs as vs as3
x12 vs ansi
double vs trible DES
ha ha --lol- |
MaKaSo
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8 Mar 2006 16:23:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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Vimukthi:
I agree that having latest technology alone dose not contribute for country's development. What I was trying to say is that SL has the ability acquire the technology much faster than developed countries due to many reasons.
Foe example, according to this article, Celtel is investing US 100 mill and this investment will definitely impact the existing technology. Any technological change-over in developed countries will cost billions and 100 millions is nothing. This is why developing countries like SL have the capacity to implement latest technology much faster rate than some of the developed countries.
I have seen in an article Canada/ Toronto going to implement wireless broadband network trough out the city and investment exceed $60 Billion.
DrAkai,
I am good, thanks. How are you today?
512kb/s is a pretty good transfer rate. Generally a connection with exceeding 200 kbps is considered as broadband.
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8 Mar 2006 16:35:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hello Larry,
How are you today and what do we have today in your basket? Any good stuff :-)
Well, I'm not sure why they avoided the Kilinochchi area, is it something to do with Tiger politics who would not like to involve in the nationwide communication set up bit like Swiss who refused to sign up as an EC member? |
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