Comments on: Sri Lanka Mobile Broadband Advertising: Dialog takes a U turn; et tu Mobitel?

By: Rohan Samarajiva

Rohan Samarajiva — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:25:24 +0000

Coverage would have to be defined. One could define it as broadest 3G coverage (the area within which one can use mobile broadband). I’d say it would be either Dialog or Mobitel at this stage, though Etisalat may be catching up. We do not have the data. So only guesses.

Does coverage mean who has the most mobile broadband customers? My colleague Helani Galpaya may be able to name the company, but the data I have seen has not been disaggregated at operator level.

Mobile broadband is where most customers are. However, if you mean fixed broadband, the answer is easy. It’s SLT.

By: Neel Gunasinghe

Neel Gunasinghe — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:06:10 +0000

Lirneasia,

Which network in Sri Lanka has the widest broadband coverage?

By: anonumous

anonumous — Thu, 26 May 2011 10:00:15 +0000

Mobitel Broadband is the woarst broadband in sri lanka .
They cheat customers at everytime
Their actual speed at 7.00pm is 10KBps
But ,they talking about 94Mbps in thesedays
why Mobitel foolish guying are doing this kind of F****** things

i hate mobitel broadband

By: Wijeweera

Wijeweera — Sat, 14 May 2011 08:00:09 +0000

http://lankacnews.com/sinhala/main-news/4g-4%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%99%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%92-%E0%B6%B4%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B4%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%9A-%E0%B6%A2%E0%B6%82%E0%B6%9C%E0%B6%B8-%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%9A/

By: mahesh

mahesh — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:12:38 +0000

according to my understanding still the 4G is being tested. according to a statement made by the CEO of Dialog, they will commercially launch the service once the devices that could support those speeds are available and the need arises. I do not think any body needs a speed around 100 mbps in mobile technology; even if so that dongle that support such speeds will be very very expensive. if you want to watch buffering free you tube 3.6 mbps is more than enough and the dongles that are freely available in the market for Rs.3,000-4,000 do not support beyond 3.6 mbps.I do not care whether it is 3g or 3.5 or 3.75 g or 4g or LTE as long as i get buffering free you tube; but none of the operators doesnot support those speeds even though they claim so..

By: Gishan Aponsu

Gishan Aponsu — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:54:09 +0000

also what is 3.57G? What is lacks from 4G?

By: Gishan Aponsu

Gishan Aponsu — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:53:16 +0000

Totally confused about 4G. Can somebody explain me whether the speeds are real? How did they increase the speeds so much when they find offering even 1 mbps difficult? If not are all of them cheating?

By: mahesh

mahesh — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:02:36 +0000

Hi,

the new entrant Etisalat claims 21 mbps in its 3.75 G network. it seems to be “really realy fast”. Wonder any testing conforms such claims….

By: Rohan Samarajiva

Rohan Samarajiva — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:18:14 +0000

No ordinary customer can get 7.2 mbps download speed in Sri Lanka on fixed or mobile platforms.

By: manas

manas — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:49:06 +0000

i need to know is srilanka has 7.2 mbps ???

By: surey

surey — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:21:04 +0000

recently i happened to buy a dialog broadband connection and even the modem itself indicates the signal strength of our area is satisfactory yet my new dialog connection is pathetically slow…
recently i used mobitel one in same location which is my home and found relatively more speeder than the dialog one…

i advice you to buy whatever the broadband you want but dialog bcoz not only they cheat us but grabbing our hardly earned money.

whoever talks for dialog are representatives of the same and they’re paid by it…
so dont trust’em…

By: Dialog Telekom’s false claims of HSPA+ at 28.8Mbps « ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace)

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:01:17 +0000

[...] misinformation, tellingly acknowledged by its own employees. Furthermore, independent think-tank Lirneasia has repeatedly exposed the great divide between promise and reality when it comes to wirel… from Sri Lankan telcos. My own office has three Dialog HSPA accounts and the network throughput on [...]

By: TANI

TANI — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:55:03 +0000

THIS SAME ISSUE HAPPENED TO ME WITH MOBITEL.

BE CAREFUL……….BOTH ARE THE SAME
BUT MOBITEL IS WORST……….

By: TANI

TANI — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:31:08 +0000

BULL SHIT……………..M3 IS ALL BULL SHIT. I DONT KNOW ABOUT DIALOG. BUT I JUST HAD MOBITEL AND THEY SEND ME TO DEATH………..AND NOW THEY SAY EVEN U ARE NOT SATICFIED WITH THE SERVICE U SHOULD PAY THE DUE AND CONTINUE THE CONTACTION……..WHAT NONSENCE……

GO TO HELL MOBITEL M3

JUST GET SLT IF U NEED A REASONABLE INTERNET SERVICE

By: Udayanga

Udayanga — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:56:13 +0000

Agree with Wick.
In addition, Liernasia’s study (http://lirneasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/broadband-qose-february-2009-v2.pdf) was conducted just after Dialog has advertised 1Mbps. It is misleading when you come to the graphs ‘Actual speed as % of stated’ figure 10 & 11. You have Intentionally forgotten that Dialog just replaced 1Mbps in their website, they kept on advertising 7.2Mbps for more than 6 months. And i haven’t seen any advertisement on 1Mbps after their amendment (except for that tiny note in Webpage). If Chanuka and the clan can do the same graph using Dialog’s 7.2Mbps advertised rate you will see where it lie.

and why don’t you answer the issue raised above. I’ll just refresh it.

” We saw Mobitel dropped their prices when they revise the speeds and come up with new packages. Best example is their Zoom7200 package speed of 7.2mbpsand which was priced at Rs.15000 with 15GB. When they revise the packages in last December they came up with Zoom 2490 speed of 3.6mbps (half of the Zoom7200) data of 7GB (half of Zoom7200) priced at Rs.2490 (6 times lower than Zoom7200). The price drop was significant with the speed drop.

Why Dialog doesn’t drop the price with the speed drop from 7.2Mbps to 1Mbps ? ”

We can see that your QoE is far away from the QoE’s of other blog posting people (even within this post)

One thing is very Clear. Chanuka is working hard to clean Dialog.

Good luck…!!!