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Tag Archives: Sri Lanka Telecom

Sri Lanka “encourages” CDMA rollout by increasing duty on handsets

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on March 14, 2006 — 8 Comments

The LBO story states: Sri Lanka’s two private wireless local loop telecom operators have been called up to pay around Rs. 400 million as duties for importing handsets, industry officials said. Last month, the island’s Board of Investment (BOI) slapped a 33 percent import duty on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) handsets with immediate effect. [...]

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Big picture of telecom reforms

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on November 7, 2004 — 7 Comments

Yesterday, I spoke to a large and restive crowd (made so by lack of air conditioning and a delayed start) in Matara (main city in the South of Sri Lanka) at the launch of the Pathfinder Foundation’s first book, a Sinhala translation of Janos Kornai’s Toward a free economy. I was asked to talk about [...]

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