Tag Archive for ‘Jaffna’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Jaffna'

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Tsunami warning tower fails on September 12th

on September 20, 2007

We assume that the failure of the Hikkaduwa tower will be examined as part of the comprehensive review the Minister has called for.

The important thing is to think about warning as a chain with many links. If one link breaks, the chain breaks. The conclusions are that one must minimize the number of links and ensure that each is link is robust. It appears from the story that a link in the Galle district failed. Why can we not directly connect the Met Department which has been given authority to issue warnings directly to the towers using a robust technology such as WorldSpace addressable satellite radio that does not even require mains power?

Is not foolhardy to install more towers before the operation of the existing towers…

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Tags: Addressable Satellite Radio, Early Warning Towers, Galle, Hikkaduwa beach, Hikkaduwa tower, Hikkaduwa Tsunami Early Warning Tower, Jaffna, Korea, Korean Government, Mahinda Samarasinghe, Met Department, Sri Lanka, Sumatra islands, Tsunami Early Warning Tower, USD, Warning Towers.

Choices: Calls or gold?

Ayesha Zainudeen

on March 10, 2007

By Rohan Samarajiva
LBO >> Choices : Priceless Link
08 March 2007 08:26:29

http://www.lbo.lk/fullstory.php?newsID=2020236857&no_view=1&SEARCH_TERM=24

March 08 (LBO) - Indonesia, like Sri Lanka, sends its women to foreign lands to work as housemaids. The numbers may be larger, though the proportion is smaller.

Telecom networks are expanding fast in both countries, Indonesia faster. The telecom sector is attracting massive investments in both countries as operators scramble to meet the burgeoning demand.

Generally, politicians and officials responsible for a sector are happy when it grows. Therefore, I was surprised to hear several senior telecom officials in Indonesia express concern about lowered gold sales supposedly caused by excessive use of calling cards by expatriate housemaids.

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Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, brother-in-law, Central Bank, Colombo, communication technologies, consumer finance survey, ephemeral products, Hambantota, India, Indonesia, International Telecommunication Union, Jaffna, Kofi Annan, Middle East, mobile phones, OECD, Rohan Samarajiva, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, SMS, society lacking insurance, Sri Lanka, telecom services, Thailand, the Philippines, United Nations, USD.

Internet out in Jaffna, according to Free Media Movement

Rohan Samarajiva

on January 30, 2007

Free media Movement – Sri Lanka
Press Release

30 January 2007

Internet facilities and 8,000 telephones cut off in Jaffna Peninsula

The Free Media Movement (FMM) is deeply disturbed to learn that basic communications facilities to the Jaffna Peninsula have been blocked from 28th January 2007. Internet facilities and around 8,000 landline telephones of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) are dysfunctional to date. SLT, jointly owned by the Sri Lankan Government and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT) of Japan, is the sole Internet provider in Jaffna Peninsula with a population of around 600,000 according to official statistics.

The FMM was told that there is no official decision by the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority to block communications in this manner in the Peninsula.

However, a number of citizens in Jaffna and journalists confirm…

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Tags: basic communications facilities, basic telephony, Colombo, Free Media Movement, Internet, Internet access, Internet facilities, Jaffna, Jaffna peninsula, Japan, mobile phones, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Telecom, Sri Lankan government, Sunanda Deshapriya, Sunil Jayasekara, Telecommunication Regulatory Authority, United Nations, www.freemediasrilanka.org.

Over 200,000 in Jaffna deprived of phone service now for two months

Rohan Samarajiva

on October 30, 2006

Dialog Telekom took a courageous step in 2002, deciding within weeks of the Cease Fire Agreement being signed that it would supply telecom services to the people of the North and East who had been excluded from the country’s telecom revolution for so long, because of the conflict and the military’s prohibition of service in conflict areas. The services thus provided were, without question, the most important dividend that the people of Jaffna saw from the path of peace, followed by the mobility allowed by the opening and restoring of the A9 highway.

Now, Dialog and the people of the North are paying the price of the path of war. For two months, the mobile networks have been shut down in the North, with service being…

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Tags: A9 highway, Dialog Telekom, Israel, Jaffna, Palestine, supply telecom services.

NEWS RELEASE: Jaffnaites spend up to 12% of their monthly regular income on telecommunications

Sriganesh Lokanathan

on February 3, 2006

Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19 December 2005: A recent study has revealed that many financially constrained Jaffnaites spend more than 12 per cent of their monthly regular income on telecommunications. People in Jaffna depend heavily on mobile telecommunication and have the highest demand for international calls in the Sri Lankan sample.

A study of ‘financially constrained’ telecom users in Sri Lanka has shown that compared to similar users in other areas of Sri Lanka, users in Jaffna exhibit markedly different patterns in their telecom use. The study, released today by LIRNEasia, an Asian research organization based in Colombo looks at telecom use amongst people whose monthly incomes are below LKR 10,000 in the Badulla, Colombo, Jaffna and Hambantota areas……

English press release: Jaffnaites spend up to 12% of their…

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Tags: Colombo, Hambantota, Jaffna, LIRNEasia, LKR, Sri Lanka, telecommunications.

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