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Sri Lanka looks to set up broadcast regulator for television and radio

Sri Lanka is looking to regulate television and radio broadcasting and the cabinet of ministers had set up a committee ...

March 5, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog Finance gets shareholder nod to raise Rs700mn

Dialog Finance Plc, a unit of Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata has received shareholder approval to raise 701 million rupees to...

March 3, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom profits up in Dec on lower income tax

State-owned Sri Lanka Telecom Plc (SLT) reported a 39.7 percent growth in net profits to 1.3 billion rupees in the Decem...

March 2, 2020 2 min read

Dialog acquires systems integration arm of Sri Lanka's VSIS

Sri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata Plc in a statement said its subsidiary Dialog Broadband Networks (Private) Ltd has acquir...

February 28, 2020 1 min read
Sri Lanka data protection authority directors appointed

President has appointed the board of directors for the Sri Lanka Personal Data Protection Authority

Sri Lanka IT conference to attract investors for local companies

To attract potential investors for IT companies in Sri Lanka and achieve a target of 3 billion US dollars in IT exports

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
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Sri Lanka's TechAdvisor.lk to de-mystify technology for consumers

ECONOMYNEXT - TechAdvisor.lk a consumer technology website said it is helping readers make sense of consumer technology ...

September 21, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka Orion City to expand with new tower

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Orion City IT Park is to be expanded with a 22-floor Orion Towers to be built th...

September 17, 2015 1 min read

Dialog gains full control of Sri Lanka e-commerce firm

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata Plc said it had paid 247.9 million rupees to buy a remaining 54.29 percent stake...

September 17, 2015 1 min read

India, Sri Lanka sign satellite deal

ECONOMYNEXT – India and Sri Lanka signed a deal on co-ordinating radio frequencies on the proposed SAARC satellit...

September 16, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka to award cloud computing tender soon

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government will soon award tenders for high capacity servers to host the proposed go...

Rohan Gunasekera
September 11, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s EAP Broadcasting gets [SL]BBB rating from ICRA

ECONOMYNEXT – ICRA Lanka Limited said it has given an issuer rating of [SL]BBB for Sri Lankan television broadcas...

September 10, 2015 6 min read

High speed broadband to link Sri Lanka state buildings

ECONOMYNEXT – All government buildings in Sri Lanka are to be linked by high speed broadband to enable officials ...

Rohan Gunasekera
September 8, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Interblocks in electronic payment deal with West International

ECONOMYNEXT – Interblocks, a Sri Lankan company that specialises in electronic payment software, has struck a par...

September 4, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka telecom regulatory risk seen high and rising

ECONOMYNEXT – Telecommunications companies in Sri Lanka face moderate to high and increasing regulatory risk with...

September 2, 2015 2 min read

Airtel revives plans to sell Sri Lanka unit: report

ECONOMYNEXT –Mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel Ltd. has revived plans to sell its Sri Lanka and Bangladesh oper...

August 31, 2015 1 min read