There was a big story about SMS use declining in India.
The response to a question whether Sri Lanka SMS use is declining like in India was answered in the negative by Supun Weerasinghe, the new CEO of Dialog Mobile (Hans Wijayasuriya is now the Group CEO). The question was triggered by the decline of SMS and VAS revenues from LKR 1,468 m in 2006 3Q (8% of total revenues) to LKR 1,223 m in 2007 3Q (5% of total revenues).
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එස්.එම්.එස්. පණිවුඩවලට ඉන්දීය රජය සීමා පනවයි
ඉන්දීය රජය එරට ජංගම දුරකථන හිමියන්ට මසකට යෑවිය හැකි එස්. එම්. එස්. ප්රමාණය 3000 ක් පමණක් බවත් දිනකට එස්. එම්. එස්. 100 කට වඩා යෑවිය නොහැකි බවත් දන්වා ඇත. ඉන්දියාවේ ජංගම දුරකථන භාවිත කරන පිරිස මිලියන 900 කි. ඉන්දීය විදුලි සංදේශ කොමිසම ප්රකාශ කරන්නේ විවිධ වෙළෙඳ ප්රචාරක ආයතනයන් විසින් පාරිභෝගිකයන් අපහසුවට පත්වන ආකාරයට ප්රචාරණ දියත් කිරීම වැළැක්වීම සඳහා මේ සීමාව පැනවූ බවයි. මෙම නීතිය ඉකුත් 28 වැනිදා සිට ක්රියාත්මකයි.
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