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Sri Lanka banks to launch request to pay services shortly

At least two Sri Lanka banks will launch request to pay services shortly, a new technology that makes it much easier for...

February 23, 2020 3 min read

Dialog Axiata to invest US$254mn in Sri Lanka network expansion

Dialog Axiata, a unit of Malaysia's Axiata group said it will invest 254.1 million US dollars (46.1 billion rupees) in i...

February 19, 2020 2 min read

Mobitel in investment drive to boost rural broadband in Sri Lanka

Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd, a unit of publicly traded Sri Lanka Telecom Plc, will expand a 100 million dollar investment drive st...

February 18, 2020 2 min read

Computer literacy in Sri Lanka grows in 1H19

Computer literacy in Sri Lanka grew to 30.1 percent in the first half of 2019, rebounding from a fall to 27.5 percent a ...

February 17, 2020 2 min read
All Sri Lanka's state sector transactions to be digitalized by March 31 - official

Sri Lanka has seen growth in digital economy since Covid-19, but not enough - experts

Acuity Knowledge Partners to double Sri Lanka unit, strengthen university outreach

Acuity is looking to double Sri Lanka office to 1,000

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
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Sri Lanka Telecom June net profit down 29-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Telecom’s net profit fell 29 percent to 1.7 billion rupees in the June 2015 quarte...

August 12, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata June net up 15-pct to Rs1.9bn

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan mobile phone operator Dialog Axiata said the group’s June 2015 quarter net profit...

August 7, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka firms get orders, leads from Asia IT expo: Trade Ministry

ECONOMYNEXT - Six Sri Lanka-based information technology firm that took part in an exhibition in Japan had generated bus...

July 29, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka mobile phones to receive foreign cash from WorldRemit

ECONOMYNEXT - UK-based WorldRemit said its international cash transfer service to Sri Lanka has been launched, allowing ...

July 29, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka inks deal for Google Loon broadband floating 'telecom towers'

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has signed a deal to deploy Google Loon high altitude 'floating telecom tower' balloons giving f...

July 28, 2015 3 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom to expand mobile business with WiFi islandwide

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka Telecom has selected two foreign suppliers to set up a network of WiFi hotspots...

June 25, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lankan scientists launch innovation dashboard to track R&D

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) –Sri Lankan scientists have launched a web-based tool called the Sri Lanka Innovation Dashb...

Rohan Gunasekera
June 15, 2015 3 min read

Sri Lanka's SupremeSAT license to be expanded

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) - SupremeSAT (Pvt) Ltd, a Sri Lanka based satellite company will be allowed to offer more services...

June 15, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Maharaja group to be awarded satellite pay TV license

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) - MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd, a terrestrial broadcaster which is a unit of Sri Lanka's Maharaja group w...

June 14, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka needs more network sharing, higher broadband tariffs: Dialog

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka needs more network sharing to cut operating costs and higher broadband tariffs ...

May 27, 2015 3 min read
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