Sri Lanka fixed wireless users shrink, broadband up
(Srilankamirror) - Fixed wireless users in Sri Lanka shrank 1.4 percent to 2.63 million in the third quarter of 2011, from a year earlier, but internet users, which include mobile broadband, rose 100 percent, official data shows.
Fixed wireline grew 4.6 percent to 929,851.
Sri Lanka Telecom, the island's only wireline operator had earlier reversed a shrinking sector after its take-over by Malaysia's UT group by promoting broadband ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) use.