8. Services
Information
Ex: Access to Internet
Communication
Ex: Voice, video
Entertainment & media
Ex: TV
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9. Telecommunications Regulatory
Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL)
National regulatory agency for telecommunications in Sri Lanka
Promote sustained development in the telecommunication industry by
shaping the regulatory process
protecting public interest
being responsive to challenges in an increasingly competitive market
Ensure that competition in the market is
Open
Fair
effective
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10. Licenses issued
Fixed Access Telephone service 3
Cellular Mobile phones 5
Data Communications (Facility based) 6
Data Communications (Non-facility based) & ISP’s 9
Trunk Mobile Radio 1
Leased Circuit Providers 1
Licensed Payphone Service Providers 1
External Gateway Operators 32
Direct-to-Home Satellite Broadcasting Service 2
Cable TV Distribution Network 2
Sub Total 62
Source: September 2012 statistics, TRCSL
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11. Sri Lanka subscriber base
Total number of Fixed phones 3,489,898
16.9
Teledensity (Fixed Phones per 100 inhabitants)
>100%
Number of Cellular Mobile Subscribers 19,636,896
95.1
Mobile Subscription per 100 people
Internet & Email Subscribers - Fixed 398,094*
~6%
Internet & Email Subscribers (Mobile ) 839,928*
Number of Public Pay Phone Booths 6,997
Trunk Mobile Radio Subscribers
206*
* Provisional Source: September 2012 statistics, TRCSL
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17. Mobile and Mobile Broadband Subscribers
Grow Faster than Fixed Broadband
Source: Infonetics Research, Mobile Backhaul Equipment and Services - Biannual Worldwide and Regional Market Size and Forecasts, September 2010
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19. Trends
SDN
M2M Cloud
Big
data
Virtualization
BYOD
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20. Food for thought
- Some of my recent tweets
The #healthcare industry The #enterprise #mobile Higher bandwidth & Automating things[with SDN] can take 5 ~10
actually reflects the largest device security market will #data growth could certified /trained humans out of the equation,
opportunities in terms of be worth € .6 billion in the
6 see an exponential which is the single biggest cost for any
#M2M. next 2 years- Analysys surge in #power company.
Mason generation.
20 homes can now Over the next 5 years, #M2M will Biggest challenge for #LTE/LTE-A networks is
generate more traffic "YOU CANNOT
account for over 1% of overall band fragmentation. This could cause #manage what you
than was carried by the #mobile traffic worldwide - Analysys difficulties in: economies of scale & #roaming
entire #Internet cannot #monitor"
Mason.
backbone in 1995- Dr.
Ian Bitterlin The current number of #mobile A full 2TB hard drive sent across
connections is estimated to be 10 the Atlantic by courier will have
#Fraud in #telecoms is 2nd only billion which is expected to reach to a lower carbon footprint &
to fraud in banking, & growing 50 billion by 2025. arrive faster than 2TB sent via
the Internet.
More than half of #Machines are the new
#Facebook's traffic #subscribers & networks are
originates on #Wi-Fi is embedded being designed specifically for In less than 2 years, iPads will
#mobiles. in 99% of the them. be more common in business than
#smartphones BlakBerries-Gartner
today.
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22. About the Author
Eng. Anuradha Udunuwara is a Chartered Engineer by profession based in Sri Lanka. He has nearly a decade
industry experience in strategy, architecture, engineering, design, plan, implementation and maintenance of CSP
Networks using both packet-switched (PS) and Circuit-Switched (CS) technologies, along with legacy to NGN
migration. Eng. Anuradha is a well-known in the field of CSP industry, both locally and internationally.
Graduated from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2001 with an honors in Electrical & Electronic Engineering,
Eng. Anuradha is a corporate member of the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka, a professional member of British
Computer Society, a member of Institution of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, a member of Institution of
Engineering & Technology (formerly Institution of Electrical Engineers), a member of the Computer Society of Sri
Lanka, a life member of Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, senior member of the Carrier
Ethernet Forum, member of the Internet Society, member of the Internet Strategy Forum, member of the Internet
Strategy Forum Network, member of the Ethernet Academy, member of the NGN/IMS forum and member of the
Peradeniya Engineering Faculty Alumni Association. He is also an ITIL foundation certified and the only MEF-CECP in
the country.
In his spare time Anuradha enjoys spending time with his family, playing badminton, photography, reading and
travelling.
He can be reached at udunuwara@ieee.org
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