Saturday, May 31, 2008

Who will win the WiMax race in Sri Lanka?

Dialog was discussing about the WiMax connections by mid 2005 but SLT started the trials. Even though their trials went successfully Dialog pioneered the WiMax offerings by entering in to the commercial operations by mid 2007. Q01 of the 2008 was a very interesting one and couple of players entered to the Mobile and WiMax market. It seems competition is getting very hot and newest addition to the WiMax game board is the Lankabell. They disclose their service offerings by 30th May 2008 and will launch the services commercially by 2nd of June 2008.

Best news is SLT and Suntel too felt the heat and as per the Suntel’s authorities their WiMax shipment is on the way. SLT too brought the WiMax spectrum from a third party and increased their external bandwidth by twofold. If I am correct SLT having the infrastructure to launch the WiMax at the moment but waiting to see what others going to offer for the prospective clients. Other than the SLT and Suntel; Electroteks too waiting in the queue to offer the wireless broadband services.

Awesome…

Almost all the fixed line operators are now in to the broadband internet race?

My question is that who will win the race in the long term?

To make it a success story, they have to understand the requirements of the end clients.

Being a client of Dialog WiMax and the SLT ADSL, I am not happy with both their connections. SLT’s connectivity is not stable enough and sometimes I have to wait for hours to get the connection online. They come up with hundreds of thousands of explanations but none of them brought the exact solutions for problems. On the other hand, Dialog able to provide a much more reliable connectivity but sucks with downloads. Due to their fare usage policy sometimes I stuck in the middle of important meetings.

What I heard from the Lankabell was that they have covered the whole Colombo area and will charge max of 6600 (including government taxes) for their high end connection which is going to offer 2 mbps downlink and 512 kbps uplink. Best thing is that they come without any fair usage policies at the moment.

Answers for my question will be…

  1. One with the best bandwidth
  2. One with the best pricing scheme
  3. Best support services
  4. One with the customized solutions caters for different end user requirements will win the race…

As of now, most of their rates are high and restrictions and the bandwidth limitations are among major concerns.

So who ever break these issues will attract most of the demand and secure the number one position in the market.

2 comments :

රුවන් said...

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ WiMax සම්බන්දතා පිලිබදව විස්තර සැපයූ ඹබට ස්තූති :)

SLT IPTV (http://www.tomorrowyou.tv) හා SLT Wizz VOIP Phone සම්බන්දතා - Dialog (ඩයලොග්) WiMax හෝ Lanka Bell WiMax සම්බන්දතා හරහා භාවිතය කෙස් ද?

"QA Heaven Chathura's Online Technical Diary" - මේ පිලිබද ඹබේ තාක්ෂණික දිනපොතේ සටහන් කලහැකිද? SLT IPTV හා SLT Wizz සම්බන්දතා, SLT නොවන අන්තර්ජාල සමග ලංකාවේ හෝ පිටරට භාවිතා කල හැකිද?

Chathura J Bandara said...

ඔබගේ දැන ගැනීම පිණිසයි

SLT IPTV සේවාව තවමත් නිළ වශයෙන් ආරම්භ කර නොමැති අතර මේ දිනවල එහි අත්හදා බැලීම් දිවයිනේ යම් යම් ප්‍රදේශ මුල් කර ගෙන සිදු කරගෙන යන බව දැන ගන්නට ලැබී ඇත.

මෙම සේවාව ලබා ගැනීමට නම් ඔබට මූලික වශයෙන් SLT රැහැන් සහිත දුරකථනයක් තිබිය යුතු බව SLT වෙතින් අප වෙත දන්වා ඇත.

බොහෝ අය මුලින් සිතූ පරිද්දෙන් SLT IPTV ලබා ගැනීමට SLT ADSL සම්බඳතාවයේ ධාරිතාව වැඩි කර ගැනීමක් හෝ SLT ADSL සම්බඳතාවක් තිබීම යන කාරණා බල නොපාන බව ඔවුන් පවසන්නට යෙදුනි.

මෑතක කරනු ලැබූ පද්දති උසස්කරණයන් හේතුවෙන් සාම්ප්‍රදායික තඹ කම්බිය තුළින්ම SLT IPTV සඳහා අවැසි ධාරිතාවය වන 4 mbps ප්‍රමාණය සම්ප්‍රේෂණය කළ හැකි බව ඔවුහු පවසති.

මෙම සේවාව ඔවුන්ගේ රැහැන් සහිත දුරකථන හිමියන්ට පමණක් ලබා ගත හැකි සේවාවක් පමණක් වන බවද දන්වන්නට යෙදුනි. මේ සම්බන්දව තොරතුරු ලද විගස ඔබ සැම යාවත්කාලීන කිරීමට කටයුතු යොදමි.

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