Sri Lanka: More than 70 percent of households have a phone in all but two provinces


Posted on October 10, 2011  /  0 Comments

The government’s 2009-10 Household Income and Expenditure Survey results, based on nationwide representative sample, are just out. I wrote about them in LBO. The ICT related results are:

As expected, only 14 percent of Western Province households are without some kind of telephone and only 12 percent are without a TV. The Eastern and Northern Provinces are the laggards, with around 35 percent households without telephones. The other provinces are clustered in the middle, with over 70 percent households having a telephone, TV and radio. Noteworthy was the high performance of the North Central Province, a war-affected region and a former laggard.

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