Archive for the ‘Telecom’ Category

Filed Under (Fun, POLITICS, Sri Lanka, TECHNOLOGY, Telecom, WTF) by Deane on July-12-2008

That’s according to Dialog, Sri Lanka’s largest mobile service provider. They offer a SMS dictionary service, so Poojitha of TimesEye decided to test it with the word ’sober’. Here’s what dialog sent him:More at TimesEye. They seem to have fixed it tho…



Filed Under (Fun, POLITICS, Sri Lanka, Telecom) by Deane on April-1-2008

According to LBO, Pooja Umashankar, the Sri Lankan/Indian actress has been appointed as Sri Lanka Telecom’s brand ambassador for Broadband services. Bad move, Pooja, really. We hate SLT. It’s slow, and if you ever call them for Technical assistance fo…



Filed Under (Free-Markets, India, POLITICS, Policy, Sri Lanka, Telecom, economics, public policy) by Deane on February-28-2008

Apparently Airtel, scheduled to start operations in Sri Lanka this year, have run into some trouble. I like Airtel, it’s my operator of choice whenever I’m in India, I’ve got good memories with it. It worked well for me, and i did do some traveling acr…