PEO Tv for Central and Southern Provinces

PEO TV is going to expand their services threw out the country starting from southern and central provinces. PEO TV is fully own subsidiary of Sri Lanka Telecom, Who is the leading telecom services provider in Sri Lanka. Viewers in Kandy, Galle, Matara, will benefit with this move. Peo Tv services are improving day by day but customer base is very small (about 8000 subscribers). Customer base is not expanding as they expect but now they are caring out promotion to such as "special package for war heroes" to expand their customer base. SLT Peo tv is expect to finish expansion program within three months.

British nationals to get welcome SMS from Mobitel

The British High Commission in Colombo has sing an agreement with Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel to send a welcome SMS message to British nationals visiting Sri Lanka. This welcome message will be sent to travellers on their arrival from Britain. It will contain contact details for the British High Commission in Colombo, enabling travellers to rapidly make contact with High Commission staff in case of need, the High Commission said in a statement.

Dialog's net loss continue... fifth straight quarterly net loss - 2008/2009

Sri lankan's largest mobile phone operator Dialog telecom announce it's fifth strait quarterly net loss for the third quarter. Financial experts expect dialog telecom to continue it's lost further.

Main contributers for dialog Telecom's loss is dialog Tv and Dialog broadband. These two subsidiaries not even expect to make profit next year. 

The company, a unit of Malaysia's Axiata, said on Monday it lost 438.9 million Sri Lankan rupees ($3.83 million) in the quarter ended Sept. 30, as profit remained elusive at its broadband and TV operations and margins were squeezed by fierce competition.

Currently Five mobile phone service providers operate in Sri Lanka with a 20 million population and over 60 percent mobile penetration.

Prime Tv, Prime radio on air

The launch took place at the auspicious time with the blessings of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The President said he is glad that ITN is launching Prime TV and Prime Radio with a truly Sri Lankan identity. He said he is aware that its wide choice of programmes will lay emphasis on Sri Lanka as well as focus more closely on the Asian region with its rich cultural diversity.
The two Channels have been launched with the purpose of bridging the gap between the multi-cultural and multi-ethnic diversity in the Sri Lankan society. This brings a fresh outlook and reform to the English media experience in Sri Lanka. With the new launch, ITN now carries out transmissions of six Channels in the Sinhala, Tamil and English languages. Vasantham Radio and Vasantham TV, the Tamil Channels have won the hearts of the Tamil audience. ITN and Lakhanda Radio have turned out to be the leading media institutions due to the novel presentations. 

Mobitel introduce "Zoom 1290"

Mobitel introduce "Zoom 1290" great mobile broadband package for just 1290/= and with 8GB capacity. It's realy fast. Package description describe download speed as 3.6Mbps but it has more than 1.5Mbps for sure at peak times. As our knowledge this is the greatest package for mobile broadband.



Post Paid Packages Zoom 890 Zoom 1290
 
Subscription (Rs) 890/-1290/-
Free Data Bundle 4 GB 8 GB
Downlink Speed Up to 1 Mbps3.6 Mbps
Uplink Speed Up to 1 Mbps 1.98 Mbps
Excess Usage Charge Rs. 2 for a block of 10 MB        Rs  1.50 for a block of 10 MB
Price Capped at (Rs.) 7500/- 7500/-
Connection Fee (Rs.) 500/- 500/-
Deposit (Rs.) 1,500/- 2,000/-

Tigo change name and Start 3G

Tigo is the third largest mobile operator in Sri Lanka recently brought by Etisalat (Emirates telecommunication corporation(ETC)) for US$ 209 millions. Very next day after completing transaction ETC completely paid off all loans which have took by Tigo.


Tigo name will surly change but at the moment we are not sure what sort of name is it goin promote. They are starting 3G service from next January and expects rate will go down further. ETC plans to introduce very low tariff scheme for mobile broadbrad.