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Telephones - main lines in use: 1,094,809 Est(2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,150,120 Est
Telephone system: very inadequate domestic service, particularly in rural areas; some hope for improvement with privatization of national telephone company and encouragement to private investment; good international service (1999)
domestic: national trunk network consists mostly of digital microwave radio relay; fiber-optic links now in use in Colombo area and two fixed wireless local loops have been installed; competition is strong in mobile cellular systems; the teledensity rate remains as low as 16.6 phone lines per 100 persons (2004) Location Map of Colombo with its administrative districts Coordinates , Government District Colombo Division, Colombo District Mayor Uvaiz Mohammad Imitiyaz (Independent Group) Geographical characteristics Area City 248 mi²/ 642 km² Land / km² Water / km² Population City (2001) 647,100 ( 2001 census ) Density 3,305/km² Metro 2,234,289 (Colombo metropolitan...
The number of telephones per 100 people in a region. ...
Though the reported phone line teledensity is 16.6 (2004) fixed phone line teledensity remains as low as 5.1, where cellular teledensity is 11.4. Reflected Cellular phone teledensity is misleading because some people are having more than one phone. Therefore true teledensity remains at a very low figure.
international: submarine cables to Indonesia and Djibouti; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (1999)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 15, FM 50, shortwave 5
Radios: Est Number of Radio sets: 12 million
Television broadcast stations: 21 (1997)
Televisions: Est Number of Television sets: 5 million( including B & W sets)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 10 Broadband was recently introduced by two telecom service providers. An internet service provider (abbr. ...
- See also: Broadband Internet access worldwide#Sri Lanka
Country code (Top-level domain): LK This article details the situation of broadband Internet access around the world. ...
Satellite Earth Stations located at Padukka and Colombo. PADUKKA, Sri Lanka. ...
Location Map of Colombo with its administrative districts Coordinates , Government District Colombo Division, Colombo District Mayor Uvaiz Mohammad Imitiyaz (Independent Group) Geographical characteristics Area City 248 mi²/ 642 km² Land / km² Water / km² Population City (2001) 647,100 ( 2001 census ) Density 3,305/km² Metro 2,234,289 (Colombo metropolitan...
See also
- List of Sri Lanka Telephone Codes
- Gunaratne, Shelton (1996). Sri Lanka and the Third Communication Revolution
- The History of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka
- SLBC-creating new waves of history
- Eighty Years of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka
See also Communications in Sri Lanka External links Sri Lanka Telecom ...
External links - Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka Telecom
- Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
- Dialog Telecom
- Lanka Internet Services Limited
- Lanka Bell
- Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
- Celltel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
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