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Lanka Bell’s Falcon connection live (Sri Lanka)

  • June 13th, 2008
  • 2:12 pm

Sri Lankan alternative telco Lanka Bell has lit a link to the ‘Falcon’ section of the FLAG international submarine fibre-optic cable system, owned by India’s Reliance Communications, reports Lanka Business Online. Lanka Bell plans to offer a range of business broadband services via the cable, and said in a statement it had already set up the infrastructure for services such as call centres and international data centres (IDC) to take advantage of the new link, in which it invested LKR3 billion. Lanka Bell owns Sri Lanka’s Falcon/FLAG landing station as well as capacity rights on the system, and plans to launch services including global voice, internet solutions, managed bandwidth based on MPLS, international private leased circuits and value added services. TeleGeography’s GlobalComms database says that the island’s incumbent PSTN operator Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) provides international cable connectivity via the consortium SEA-ME-WE system as well as the Bharat Lanka cable to India and the Colombo-Male link to the Maldives.

   

Lanka Bell launches WiMAX

  • June 3rd, 2008
  • 3:14 pm

The Sri Lankan fixed wireless operator Lanka Bell has launched its WiMAX wireless broadband network for home and business users. The firm is offering packages with download speeds of up to 10MBps. ‘The launch of Bell Broadband represents an important milestone in the evolution of Lanka Bell as a total solutions provider to enterprise and residential users,’ Prasad Samarasinghe managing director of Lanka Bell said in a statement. Lanka Bell was established in 1997 and now serves almost a million subscribers with fixed wireless and dial-up internet services.