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Sri Lanka's Mobitel offers 5G smartphone

Sri Lanka's Mobitel said it is offering a 5G smartphone which can be pre-ordered.

October 1, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata offers 5G smartphone

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata said it has launched a mid-range 5G smartphone, Huawei Nova 7 SE in several locations where th...

October 1, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka fintech start-ups seek funding in virtual pitch

Seven Sri Lanka fintech start-ups, which are developing applications for insurance, payments and credit products, are se...

September 15, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka mobile network Dialog adopts QR code payments

Mobile operator Dialog Axiata said it had adopted Sri Lanka's national quick response code (QR) which will enable paymen...

September 13, 2020 2 min read
EDB, JICA to promote Sri Lanka ICT companies in Japanese market

To assist 30 SME ICT/BPM companies and tech startups over a two-year period

Regional rivals China, India eye Sri Lanka Telecom

China and India are both involved in Sri Lanka's port sector

Mitra Innovation to double R&D team in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – Mitra Innovation, a software company with its research unit in Sri Lanka, is growing so fast it pla...

May 18, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka Dialog Axiata’s March 2017 net down 42-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata said net profit fell 42% to Rs1.5 billion in the March 2017 quarte...

May 12, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog launches Voice-over-LTE

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata said it was launching Voice-over-Long Term Evolution (VoLTE), a skype like service that operat...

April 2, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka e-commerce seen hampered by regulations

ECONOMYNEXT – Despite growth of electronic commerce in Sri Lanka, it remains constrained by regulations that make...

March 21, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka data protection laws seen inadequate

ECONOMYNEXT – Digital commerce in Sri Lanka is growing along with greater internet penetration but data protectio...

March 16, 2017 1 min read

Singer Sri Lanka says smartphones, tablet sales soaring

Singer Sri Lanka Plc, a publicly traded consumer durables retailer, said tablet sales rose 105 percent in 2016 from a ye...

March 14, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom returns to profit in December quarter

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Telecom, the country's sold wireline operator, which has a mobile unit, said it returned to prof...

March 2, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s eChannelling reports loss in December quarter

ECONOMYNEXT – eChannelling, Sri Lanka's first listed dotcom, reported a loss of Rs1.8 million in the December 201...

February 28, 2017 1 min read

Google may abandon Sri Lanka balloon trials over legal hitch

ECONOMYNEXT – Google might abandon plans to do trial balloon flights in Sri Lanka under its Project Loon aerial w...

February 16, 2017 2 min read

Chamath Palihapitiya appointed Sri Lanka ICT ambassador

Chamath Palihapitiya, a Sri Lanka born information technology venture capitalist now residing in the US, has been appoin...

February 16, 2017 1 min read
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Sri Lanka Telecom's outlook changed to stable, sales slowdown seen

ECONOMYNEXT - Fitch Ratings said it has changed the outlook on Sri Lanka Telecom's (SLT) Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Cu...

February 14, 2017 5 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata December net doubles to Rs1.25bn

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan celco Dialog Axiata said December 2016 quarter net profit rose 102% to Rs1.25 billion from a ye...

February 9, 2017 2 min read

Google doodle to celebrate Sri Lanka Independence Day 2017

Google, a popular search engine has posted a google doodle on its front page to celebrate Sri Lanka's Independence from ...

February 4, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka says Alibaba to invest in the country

Sri Lanka's Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake has invited Jack Ma, boss of Chinese internet portal Alibaba, to invest i...

January 20, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka seeks Indian state help for major IT push

Chief minister of India's Andhra Pradesh said Sunday that Sri Lanka sought help from his southern state to adopt interne...

January 8, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s NicNac wins contest to go for Helsinki Accelerator event

ECONOMYNEXT – NicNac, which offers a delivery service, has been chosen as the best Sri Lankan impact oriented sta...

November 24, 2016 1 min read

Carpooling app wins Sri Lanka's Janashakthi tech prize

A carpooling app written by group of undergraduates had won the top prize of million rupees from a contest sponsored by ...

November 6, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lankan cyber-athletes to battle it out

ECONOMYNEXT – Cyber games and comic book entertainment will feature the Sri Lanka Cyber Games Central Qualifier a...

October 28, 2016 2 min read

Fitch sees strong growth for Sri Lankan telcos despite higher taxes

ECONOMYNEXT – Higher use of data services should help Sri Lankan telecommunications firms like Dialog Axiata and ...

October 21, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom gets govt high-speed broadband deal

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Telecom has been selected to provide a high-speed broadband fibre optic government commun...

October 20, 2016 2 min read