We could still do better; But more taxes could kill the industry
The Nation Economist, Sunday 26 August 2007 | See Print version
I have to say that JHU does not know economics. What is the rationale behind taxing the only sector that is growing? The industry is giving government enormous amount of revenue. Twenty percent of every mobile rupee goes to the government. If you squeeze the goose for more eggs the goose will ultimately die. To my knowledge some of the taxes the government is thinking of will really kill the industry. We have got data which say people in the bottom of the pyramid are willing to spend Rs.500 per month on communication. So if the government put another tax these people will be discouraged…
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28 September 2006 19:00:19
Sri Lanka Telecom links up with India’s BSNL to offer wider choice
September 28 2006 (LBO) – India’s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Thursday officially kicked off a 1.8 billion rupee undersea cable unit with Sri Lanka Telecom, which will bring down call rates between South Asian countries.
The optical fibre cable, which run between Mt Lavinia (Sri Lanka) and Tuticorin in India, will enable SLT customers to enjoy high speed broadband services such as audio and video streaming.
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LIRNE.NET is made up of research organizations, but we are building up organically, based on actual collaborative work rather than formal agreements. We worked with the LINK Centre in S Africa for years, before it became a member of LIRNE.NET. This is the approach we adopt at LIRNEasia as well. We have a number of projects that we have obtained funds for; using our best judgment, we assemble teams of researchers to work on those projects; when they produce the output, we involve as many people as we can in the discussion so that the product is improved/the knowledge is disseminated. That’s what we were doing in Mt Lavinia last year.
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