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More media coverage for LIRNEasia’s broadband QoSE research

“I can’t imagine how and based on what measure TRAI set 256kbps internet connection as broadband. It’s very difficult for users to work with this speed. Please don’t compare Bangladesh and Sri Lanka while setting standard for India.”
This was how a reader responded when Indian Express online carried a story on the dissemination of the [...]

Migrant results from teleuse@BOP3 carried in Sri Lanka media

The Sunday Times (English) and Ravaya (Sinhala) carried the results of the migrant component of the teleuse research, making direct reference to the need to set the rules in place, a topic that was addressed in a previous issue of the Times by M. Aslam Hayat.
“The challenge for mobile operators is to make a remittance [...]

3R work in the news

An article in the Sunday Times, Sri Lanka features the 3R (reduce-reuse-recycle) work done by the Girl Guides Association of Sri Lanka, administratively/logistically supported by LIRNEasia and funded by IDRC.  More information on LIRNEasia’s 3R project is available here.
In recent years they have designed projects such as 3R which stands for the three-fold environmental concept [...]

Sri Lanka: Lanka Bell pays users for incoming calls

In its full color advertisement in today’s Sunday Times, Lanka Bell claims paying users for incoming calls is a new chapter in Telecom history. Is it? May be in Sri Lanka. But we have already discussed similar strategies elsewhere.

Sri Lanka: Senior citizen plans legal action against Telecom Regulator

Senior citizen and former left wing politician Vasudeva Nanayakkara, who drew attention as a public activist as the successful petitioner in the Lanka Marine Services Ltd., (LMSL), is now threatening to take up another public interest issue in court – failure of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission’s (TRC) to comply with a Supreme Court (SC) order of [...]

Blocking SMS when it is needed most

Many of us have our own stories how SMS helped in an emergency. Here is mine.
I was at the National Book Exhibition at BMICH on September 12, 2007 evening when a tsunami alert was broadcast.  It created instant chaos. I did not have access to a TV or a radio. By then the mobile voice [...]

Rural BPOs: Corporate responsibility or business?

Rural BPO at Mahavilachchiya received wide publicity yesterday, with several local newspapers prominently highlighting the to-be-success story like Sunday Times did below in a first page half page article, and a finance editorial.
BPO in the Anuradhapura backwoods
IT rumble in the jungle

What puzzles us is why some of these articles (Not the Sunday Times story) referred [...]

Tips on how to end poverty or run the country?

Tips on how to end poverty or how to run the country?

Sunday Times Financial Times (Sri Lanka) February 11 2007
Acutally, on how to improve agricultural markets using ICTs…

Sri Lanka “ready for any tsunami”

The Sri Lanka Disaster Minister is quoted by the Sunday Times (23 July 2006, p. 2) as stating that “In the wake of last week’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Indonesia, the country was fully prepared within 23 minutes as an early warning reached the Met Department.”
According to the 17 July timeline.ppt, the PTWC and [...]

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