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Tsunami warning tower fails on September 12th
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 [...]
Choices: Calls or gold?
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 [...]
Internet out in Jaffna, according to Free Media Movement
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 [...]
Over 200,000 in Jaffna deprived of phone service now for two months
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 [...]
NEWS RELEASE: Jaffnaites spend up to 12% of their monthly regular income on telecommunications
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 [...]
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