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Airtel Launch on January 12 in Sri Lanka
At last, Bharathi Airtel has decided to launch their products in Sri Lanka. Today they’ve launched an aggressive advertising campaign in mass medias and electronic medias.
Today I saw bill boards of Airtel everywhere around Colombo. I’m glad finally Dialog got tough competition, and they’ll think of quality service. Followed by Airtel, RTEC is also entering Sri Lankan as a mobile operator.
The company on Monday announced its Lanka launch with ads in local newspapers. Ahead of Airtel’s entry, other operators have slashed tariff rates and are offering discounts with cellular connections.
Airtel is investing $200 million in the Sri Lankan operations and is replicating the outsourcing model in the island country. “It is an extension of the same business model. The company is leveraging its Indian partnerships,” said an analyst.
Airtel has outsoured IT operations to IBM while Huawei is rolling out networks. Bharti Telesoft, a part of the Bharti group, will offer value added services.
The company bagged license for Sri Lanka in early 2007 and hired Amali Nanayakkara as the CEO in October that year. She was earlier working with Unilever in Sri Lanka as Director Marketing in the Personal Care Division.
Airtel has hired largely local people for operations in Sri Lanka. Around 20 people from Airtel India are currently working there, looking after the launch.
PS: Still offical website reads “Comming Soon”
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Dialog Sucks My Life
Dialog customer care used to be the best customer care in whole Sri Lanka, but today I don’t think they’re no longer entitled to receive any Best Customer Care Support award.
As I have reached 5GB limit in my mobile broad band speed of the dongle has gone down. I went to Dialog Arcade in Bamba near British Council. Today there is a huge crowd and people are rushing in like nothing, may be because of Holiday offers and all.
Dialog Logo
I’ve been sitting in the bench and wasted more than 30 minutes, and then a guy called me to his counter. I told him my problem and I asked him to restore the speed back for my data connection. That guy went inside and returned after a while and told me “Sir, I can’t get your request as the relevant manager who should approve this request is on annual leave. If you insist I can get the request but it may take around 1 week to process the request”
I was asking “You’re a telecommunication company even though you can’t get the request and transfer to another arcade or something, huh?”
“Sorry sir, I can’t do that”.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!
Felt like scolding that guy but realized no point of scolding him. The problem is with the top management who has arranged this kind of rigid procedures. They must be having a back-up plan. The manager who went on a annual leave didn’t arranged any back up plan to run the operation while going on a leave.
For god sake, I’m tired of Dialog! If I have a better option around me, then nothing will stop me from switching away from Dialog products.
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Airtel Launch Further Delayed
Breaking News: January 12th Airtel Launch
In one of my posts I’ve mentioned that, “Airtel will be launched on 18th of December”. Once again Airtel further delayed their launch.
It’s really a funny joke that Airtel keeping the people expectations. One of my friends working inside saying that, still they have not decided about the pricing. I don’t know how but there are enough emails roaming around in internet with Airtel tariff details.
Airtel Logo
Airtel is not going to have a rapid stake growth in Sri Lanka. It’ll take some time for them to catch up with the market. They need to do something outstanding to break and penetrate the brand image of Dialog. Most of the Dialog users like me will not easily switch to Airtel.
We’ll wait and see the out come…. (though I hate it)
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December 18 - Airtel Launch in Sri Lanka
Breaking News: January 12th Airtel Launch
As far as I hear Airtel is going to initiate their operations in Sri Lanka by 18th December, 2008. From January we are expecting Airtel in Sri Lankan market but due to inter network problems we couldn’t get the service.
Image from Airtel.lk
As of now, all problems are resolved and they are gonna launch the service in Sri Lanka. Today I checked their Sri Lankan portal, it welcomes us with a note “Coming Soon”
Hope we can get much cheaper calls from Airtel and for god sake existing operators will slice their charges once again.
PS: Some people say that Sharuk Khan coming for launch. Can anyone from inside confirm it???
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Get Paid for Incoming calls
This kind of promotion techniques are popular in western countries, but for the first time Sri Lankan company has come up with this idea. Yes, If you’re receiving an IDD call then you’ll be entitled to some money.
As per lankabell web site,
Effective immediately, every incoming IDD call on a Lanka Bell phone will earn its user 50 cents for every minute of the call, regardless of its duration, country of origin or how many calls are received for a day, the company announced.
I don’t know how it’s possible, but seems Lankabell will receive some money from international operators while their called placed to Lankabell powered phones. Most probably Lankabell wants to share a part of income they make from incoming IDD calls.
Anyway, Sri Lankan Telecommunication costs are getting cheaper, but it should get even much cheaper to reach all Sri Lankans.
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Beware of Edna and Manchee Products
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Update (2/11/2008):The Munchee Lemon Puff brand of Ceylon Biscuits Limited was exempted from the recent melamine controversy on receipt of negative results by Ministry of Health. In sequence the product has now been removed from the list of prohibited items.
The Swiss authorities have ordered the withdrawal from shops of biscuits from Thailand and Sri Lanka tainted with the toxic chemical, melamine.
They say traces of the chemical were found in LomonPuff Munchee biscuits imported from Sri Lanka. They’ve urged other European countries to follow them.
In Sri Lanka Dr. Ajith Mendis, Director General of Health, told that Swiss authorities are yet to inform them on the withdrawal of Sri Lankan products.
“Now that we were told, of course I would be taking measures to get these buiscuits tested,” he said.
The judiciary has issued an interim order against the distribution and selling of Edna chocolate products. The order was issued after considering a petition by the Consumer Affair Authority (CAA) which said it is suspicious whether the company has used milk tainted with the toxic chemical.
Colombo Additional Magistrate ordered the CAA to produce a report on its investigations on 28 October.
Test results on the leading milk powder brands Nespray, Anchor, Kotmale, Maliban and Diamond have proven to be free of Melamine, Minister of Consumer Affairs Bandula Gunawardena said.
With more and more milk products from China and Taiwan having problem. We really have to check where the things are produced. Here is a way to differentiate Taiwan made products and China made products: by looking at first three digits of its Bar Code.
If the first three digits are 690, 691 or 692 - China made
If the first three digits are 471 - Taiwan made
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IPTV in Sri Lanka from SLT
Sri Lanka Telecom recently introduced IPTV in Sri Lanka. IPTV is simply a TV broadcast over the copper telephone line. To have this IPTV in your home you must have ADSL.
I was watching a demo of IPTV and it was very interesting. Especially the VOD (Video on Demand) is an very interesting feature. Say you have a favorite show at 7 PM but when you come home it almost 8 PM and you missed your favorite show. If you have an IPTV in your home you don’t have to worry. You can simply browse and see your favorite show at your convenient time. Also note you can forward and rewind your favorite shows. Damn cool isn’t it? Read more
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Unlimited Dialog Mobile Broadband
Long awaited unlimited HSPA broadband is offered by dialog. Interesting stuff in this initiation is HSPA dongle for 6000 SLR. If you are to buy one, then you need to spend around 18,000 SLR – 20,000 SLR.
Though it is said unlimited download, there is a Fair User Policy which may affect you. Fair user policy limits your download speed with your download volume. Basically, if you’re a freak downloading each and everything from net, then your download will affect other user’s downloading experience in the network.
Torrent lovers will have hard time with this package, but normal users can get maximum out of it. Currently SLT ADSL has no Fair user policy attached to it, so we can download any amount of software, games, and movies from torrent sites and file sharing sites. Read more
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Change Country in PayPal
If you ever want to change your country in PayPal, forget it. You’re not allowed to change the country your account. If you really wanna change your country in profile then you have to close your account and open an account again with the same email address.
Recently one of my friends came back to Sri Lanka after finishing in Masters in USA. He just wanted to change his country to Sri Lanka, so he wrote a letter to PayPal. As I said earlier they want him to close his account and open a new account.
I do apologize
for the inconvenience this issue may have caused you. I understand that
you would want ton change the country in your account and add a new
credit card on your new account having the Sri Lanka as the country.When changing your street address, you will be unable to change your
country of residence, as PayPal currently does not have a feature where
you can add addresses from multiple countries on the same PayPal
account. The only way to change the country of residence is to open a
new PayPal account, and select your country of residence during the sign
up process.Please note that an email address can only be used on one active PayPal
account at a time. If you want to use the same email address on your new
account, you will first have to close your existing PayPal account
however, since you still have balance in this account, I would suggest
that you have to initiate a check withdrawal for you to get the money in
your PayPal account balance.Members registered from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Ecuador, India,
Jamaica, or Uruguay can request a check to be mailed to the address on
their PayPal Account by following these instructions:1. Log in to your account at https://www.paypal.com/
2. Click the ‘Withdraw’ subtab
3. Click ‘Request a check from PayPal’
4. Enter the amount
5. Select the address the check is to be mailed to using the
pull-down menu6. Click ‘Continue’
7. Review the confirmation page
8. Click ‘Submit’
When you request a check, it will take 4-6 business days to process the
request and prepare the check to be mailed. Postal delivery time is
additional and varies depending on your country of residence.Please note:
· PayPal has no control over postal delivery times
· Check delivery may be delayed by government holidays in both the
U.S. and in your home country
· PayPal is not responsible for inaccurately entered mailing
informationOnce you receive the check for your withdrawal that is the time to close
the account so that you will be able to use the same email address and
create an account under Sri Lanka.To close your PayPal account, please follow these steps:
Log in to your account at https://www.paypal.com/
Click the “Profile” subtab.
Click the “Close Account” link located under “Account Information” and
follow the online instructions.Once your old account has been closed, please follow these steps to open
a new account:Visit https://www.paypal.com/
Select the “Personal” radio button for a Personal or Premier account.
Select the “Business” radio button for a Business account.Choose a Country from the drop down menu.
Click “Continue.”
Fill out the form. *The Business account form has two pages to complete.
Click the “Sign Up” button at the bottom of the page. You will be taken
to a new page.
Once you have opened a new account, please follow the directions to
confirm your email address. Once your email address is confirmed, your
PayPal account will be ready to use!Again, I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this might cause you.
If you have further questions, please feel free to email us backIf you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.
Sincerely,
Ryanpy
PayPal, an eBay Company
You may know that, as a Sri Lankan user, you can’t receive money in PayPal. 
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A for Apple
Recently Ravi tagged me and took me into this meme. According to the meme, simply you have to check the sites you have visited frequently using firefox 3. As I remember we can check this in IE 7 as well. If you wanna know the site you visited more frequently for the letter a then type http://a and check the drop down list. More detail information available in Ravi’s site.
Here comes my stat
- a Yahoo Answers I don’t have to give introduction to this site. If you have questions in any domain simply publish them here and you’ll get answers from experts.
- b Google Blog Search This site is used to search Blogs.
- f Feed Burner This is to track your feed readers also you can count number of feed readers.
- g Google Sri Lanka Google’s Sri Lankan portal??
- i Tamil Yahoo News Yahoo news in Tamil.
- j Sun Java Yeah interesting site for Java developers.
- m Maatru Tamil Blogs aggregator.
- n Nokia Nokia Phones.
- o Off Gutter My cousin’s blog. It’s a niche blog. If you have a passion for cricket then you must read this site.
- p Pay Per Post They’ll pay you for sponsored posts.
- u Ularal Tamil Twitter.
- v Vimarsanam Film Reviews in Tamil
and now I’m going to tag
Rule:
* The Tag name is A for Apple
* Give preference for regualr sites
* Ignore your own blogs, sites.
* Tag 3 People.
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