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Dialog Axiata traffic surge 40-pct in Sri Lanka Covid-19 curfews, but revenue hit on discounts

Dialog Axiata, Sri Lanka's largest mobile operator, which has fixed access and pay television had seen a surge in traffi...

May 1, 2020 3 min read

SL CERT|CC issues threat warnings for ‘Free Internet Data Scams’

Sri Lanka CERT|CC for cyber security issues has issued high threat warnings for ‘Free Internet Data Scams’ and asks ...

April 23, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka's main Coronavirus hospital given data, video facilities by Dialog Axiata

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata said it had provided high speed data links and video conference facilities to the Infectious ...

April 19, 2020 1 min read

Yara Technologies develops platform for schools to communicate with parent

Yara Technologies, a Colombo-based start-up it had launched an online platform that connects schools and pre-schools wi...

April 2, 2020 1 min read
Huawei signs agreement to digitise Sri Lanka schools

Huawei announced its support to help Sri Lanka implement program to nurture software and hardware engineers

Sri Lanka water board to go digital with Japan support

NWSDB will be supported to transform its current paper document system into digital form to speed up its operations

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
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Dialog Axiata buys into Sri Lanka e-learning firm

ECONMYNEXT – Mobile phone operator Dialog Axiata has bought a 26 percent stake in HeadStart (Pvt) Ltd., a firm cr...

January 6, 2016 1 min read

Making sense of Sri Lanka's plan to form a telecom backbone firm: Interview

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's budget for 2016 has announced plans to form a company, presumably jointly owned by the operato...

November 24, 2015 4 min read

Sri Lanka telecom firms hit by uncertain tax regime: Fitch

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's telecom firms have been hit by an uncertain tax regime, with more taxes feared from the govern...

November 23, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka proposes common firm to take-over telecom backbone, towers taxed in budget 2016

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is to create a common user backbone firm under a state agency to take-over fibre networks, tower...

November 22, 2015 2 min read

Electronic documentation can prevent corruption in Sri Lanka: Eran

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan customs and ports should urgently adopt a long-delayed electronic document processing wh...

November 19, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka in innovation push during Global Entrepreneurship Week

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is marking Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015, with founders of several innovative start-ups and ...

November 19, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom Sept net down 70-pct on forex losses

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Telecom said September 2015 quarter net profit fell 70 percent to 630 million rupees from...

November 14, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka R&D still facing funding, risk-taking constraints

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan companies are spending more on research and development but are still constrained by lac...

November 8, 2015 2 min read

Dialog to invest US$174mn more in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan mobile phone operator Dialog Axiata said it plans to invest 174 million US dollars (24.6...

October 21, 2015 1 min read

Skype users in Sri Lanka hit by outage

ECONOMYNEXT - Skype users in Sri Lanka are among those who were unable to use the messaging and video chat portal Monday...

September 21, 2015 1 min read