A good value-added blogpost drawing from LIRNEasia research Helani Galpaya’s work:
These are only a few graphs and download speeds are only one measure. What’s nice is that we can now quite confidently say Sri Lanka’s Internet and not be talking about a niche product. There are at least 280,000 fixed subscribers (including dial-up, ADSL and WiMax) and around 300,000 mobile broadband subscribers. There are also over 1 million HSPA/3G mobile users with active data use. This is all via Helani’s report btw.
The rub is that while more Sri Lankans are on the Internet, we are all wasting a bunch of time and getting frustrated at how slow it is. And while, to a degree, that may be out of any one company’s control (except perhaps the state controlled SLT), their advertising certainly is in their control, and the advertised speeds are offensively wrong.
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