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Sri Lanka telecom regulator asked find businesses to use Lotus Tower

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had asked the telecom regulator to find local and foreign businesses to use Lot...

June 16, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka telcos to offer new data plans to study, work from home in Coronavirus

Sri Lanka's telecom firms will provide expanded data plans to help customers work and study from home to promote social ...

June 8, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom says dealing with REvil hack, customer data safe

Sri Lanka Telecom, the island's largest fixed line operators said a cyber attack has been mounted on a section of their ...

May 25, 2020 1 min read

Coats Digital, Sri Lanka's Res.Q and Serai eye tech boost for apparel industry in Covid

Tech units of thread maker Coats, HSBC Bank have teamed up with Res.Q, a technology firm backed by Sri Lanka's Hirdraman...

May 21, 2020 2 min read
Sri Lanka's health care digitisation reduces operational costs: government

This availability of data helps the hospital provide treatment easily when the patient returns to the hospital.

Sri Lanka Dialog March quarter net profit up 35-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata PLC said group net profit for the March 2016 quarter rose 34.7 perce...

May 12, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka mobile internet use up 22-pct in 2015

ECONOMYNEXT – Mobile internet connections grew rapidly in 2015, supported by cheap prices and infrastructure impr...

May 10, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lankan founder of Lebara targets migrants with TV, cash services

LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Lebara, the mobile phone group often seen selling SIM cards to new arrivals at major railwa...

April 24, 2016 3 min read

Google balloon on ground demo in Sri Lanka on April 01

ECONOMYNEXT - Google's Loon balloons will be demonstrated on ground in Sigiriya in central Sri Lanka on April 01, an off...

March 30, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom in the red

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Telecom, the country's sold wireline operator, which has a mobile unit, has lost 383 million rup...

March 1, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Dialog, Asiri in health e-commerce deal

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata and Asiri Hospitals have entered into a joint venture agreement in...

February 24, 2016 1 min read

Global credit issuers approve Sri Lanka’s Epic security software

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Epic Technology Group said the top three international credit card issuers, Visa...

February 24, 2016 2 min read

Google loon to fill Sri Lanka coverage gaps, billed by existing operators

ECONOMYNEXT - Broadband internet from 'Google Loon' floating telecom transmitters will be available and billed through e...

February 23, 2016 3 min read

Google loon balloon over Sri Lanka in a controlled descent: official

ECONOMYNEXT - A 'google loon' airborne telecom mobile telecom transmitter was brought down in Sri Lanka's central hill c...

February 18, 2016 1 min read

Ebay targets more export sellers from Sri Lanka as volumes grow

ECONOMYNEXT - US-based Ebay said it had tied up with Sri Lanka's HelloCorp to bring in new sellers, as retail export sal...

February 18, 2016 3 min read
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Rocket Internet firm everjobs to expand in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – Rocket Internet company everjobs wants to expand beyond Sri Lanka’s main cities this year an...

Rohan Gunasekera
February 17, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata December net down 58-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Dialog Axiata, Sri Lanka’s dominant mobile phone operator, said December 2015 quarter net pr...

February 17, 2016 1 min read

First Google Loon balloon enters Sri Lanka airspace

(AFP) - Google's balloon-powered high-speed Internet service known as "Project Loon" began its first tests in Sri Lanka ...

February 15, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog may buy Airtel unit with share swap: report

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata may acquire a unit of Bharti Airtel in the island by issuing its own stock for s...

February 11, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka in talks to test Facebook drones over island: minister

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is in talks with Facebook to test its solar powered high-flying drones over the island which can...

February 3, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Axiata sounds authorities on possible Airtel take-over

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata, the largest mobile operator, has sounded out authorities on a take-over of a un...

February 2, 2016 1 min read

Pay Pal executive in Sri Lanka for talks

ECONOMYNEXT – A top executive from Pay Pal, an internet firm that processes digital and mobile payments, is to vi...

February 1, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka to start Google Project Loon balloon trials this month

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has signed a one-year deal with Google to start flight trials of Project Loon, a research...

February 1, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Laugfs group starts e-commerce business

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Laugfs Holdings group said it had started an e-commerce business offering a range of over 2,000 ...

January 25, 2016 1 min read

Youtube launches Sri Lanka homepage

ECONOMYNEXT - Youtube has launched customised homepages to Sri Lanka, highlighting Sinhalese language content relevant t...

January 14, 2016 1 min read