Comments on: Ruined Broadband at Polonnaruva: Should we blame Mobitel, Dialog or King Parakramabahu?

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By: Chanuka Wattegama

Chanuka Wattegama — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:38:18 +0000

All what I got was above. (I checked for at least 5 times for three days)

I do not know whether it was HSPA or GPRS. Normally I see a blue light in my modem. At Polonnaruruwa I saw a green light. So I assumed a difference. (Of couse, 5 kbps cannot be HSPA)

By: emile

emile — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:20:55 +0000

Hi Mobitel DOES have 3G coverage there.

Check the map on http://www.mobitel.lk/coverage/index.html It shows Pollonnaruwa is covered. You sure you aint getting?

By: Chanuka Wattegama

Chanuka Wattegama — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:06:58 +0000

Apologies for the overlook. It has to be GPRS. Yes, it was unintentional. Will correct as soon as I find time.

I am not sure whether Mobitel promises 3G in Polonnaruwa or not.

By: Mahinda Herath

Mahinda Herath — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:55:03 +0000

You said “Apparently 3G services are unavailable in Polonnaruva. All Mobitel could deliver was GPRS at a speed less than 5 kbps”. If that is the case why are you captioning your first exhibit as “Mobitel HSPA”? Surely GPRS is 2G where as HSPA is 3G. For a casual reader who will just glance at the heading and the exhibits this will send a wrong message on the capabilities of HSPA in general and the capabilities of Mobitel HSPA in particular. I hope that this misrepresentation is not intentional!

By: Chanuka Wattegama

Chanuka Wattegama — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:27:06 +0000

Sorry, I had no way of checking the WiMax quality. Will be grateful if a reader checks and provides that information.
(Pl try http://www.speedtest.net and the server in KL for uniformity)

The point I want to make is Broadband quality drops in Pollonnaruva for different reasons. (compared to Colombo) In Colombo we hardly find last mile issues. When we did our broadband testing, availability was 100%. (It was same in Chennai) On the other hand, at Polonnaruwa it seems the biggest problem is the last mile.

Does this have to do with the relatively low demand?

By: kasun

kasun — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:08:20 +0000

what about wimax? the area is covered by dialog wimax