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Pandemic forces age-old Colombo Tea Auction into the future
Multimillion-dollar tea industry relies on the Colombo Tea Auction operating under rules and procedures mostly unchanged since the 1880s. Read more…
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Hutch Lanka has 90% of population covered by 4G, plans 5G
Sri Lanka’s Hutch Telecommunications Lanka (Hutch) has completed its island-wide deployment of 4G services, blanketing 90% of the population. Read more…
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Dialog Axiata, Ericsson, Sri Lankan govt set up 5G lab
Dialog Axiata, Ericsson, and Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a 5G Innovation Center. The center is intended to stimulate entrepreneurship and encourage Read more…
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Openet expands Sri Lanka Telecom’s backend to support VoLTE
Openet announced that Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is extending its Openet policy and charging solution to support Voice over LTE (VoLTE) as a further advancement of its 4G network. SLT is rolling out VoLTE with Read more…
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Dialog Axiata launches eSIM profile for wearables and other IoT devices
Dialog Axiata has announced the commercial deployment of embedded SIM (eSIM) technology, along with the launch of the eSIM-compatible Huawei Watch 2 smart watch in Sri Lanka. The pre-installed eSIM in wearables gives customers the Read more…
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Dialog Axiata and Orion City to build high-density data center
Dialog Axiata Group has announced a joint venture partnership with Orion City to build and manage the island’s first ever high-density data center at the Orion City IT Park in Colombo. The proposed data center Read more…
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Dialog Axiata launches $150m fund for Sri Lankan digital startups
Sri Lankan operator Dialog Axiata announced the launch of the Digital Innovation Fund, the country’s first digital venture capital fund to exclusively focus on financially supporting Sri Lankan digital startups. The fund, initiated and anchored Read more…
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Dialog partners with Australia for payments pilot in Northern Province
Sri Lankan operator Dialog Axiata announced it is collaborating with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to pilot a digital payment platform rollout across 200 ATM locations in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province. With Read more…
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Sri Lanka Telecom and ZTE test fixed-wireless LTE-A Pro
ZTE has announced a partnership with Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) to complete a PoC verification test in Colombo for its fixed-wireless eWBB solution using LTE-A Pro. In the test, ZTE used its TD-LTE eWBB solution Read more…
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Dialog Axiata launches NB-IoT to boost its IoT offerings
Dialog Axiata has launched an NB-IoT nework – purportedly the first such network in South Asia – that it says will enhance its recently launched ‘Dialog Smartlife’ IoT service. Dialog said that NB-IoT has been Read more…