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Airtel partners TRCSL ‘Gamata Sanniwedanaya’ to boost network in Ratnapura
April, 7, 2021
Working in partnership with the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL), Airtel Lanka, added its support to ‘Gamata Sanniwedanaya’ to eliminate coverage ‘dark spots’ island-wide.
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st phase of the initiative, Gamata Sanniwedanaya aims to facilitate construction of 37 new signal towers in the Ratnapura district. The digitisation of rural communities will help keep anyone connected and productive in their daily lives, supporting seamless distance-learning and flexible working requirements.
Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony, TRCSL Director General Oshada Senanayake said: “The bold steps that we are taking today under the ‘Gamata Sanniwedanaya’ initiative will lay the foundation for Sri Lanka’s accelerated transformation into a vibrant, digitalised regional hub for tech, ICT and related services. This starts with bridging the digital divid
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Sri Lanka’s telecom operators have been violating Net Neutrality, the principle that traffic on the internet should not be discriminated. Plans frequently offer access to social media services like Facebook and WhatsApp for free, while metering other internet traffic. The end result has been that customers have been left with low data allowances and are locked into tariff plans where streaming services and social media networks blessed by network operators get unrestricted access to consumers, while the rest of the internet is subject to low limits.
Social media-only packs are not new, but a review of some of Sri Lanka’s telecom plans shows that discriminatory data packs have left a deep imprint on how the country accesses the internet. For example, there’s Mobitel’s Non-Stop plan, which provides the WhatsApp, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Viber for up to 30GB, but limits other high speed usage at 2GB. Then there is Dialog fixed broadband’s Netflix-only plan,
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