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 30^th 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.

How to run two Skype clients in parallel from the same machine?

If you working for a company as an employee and working as a freelancer for someone else at the same time you might be worrying on a way to maintain the contacts between your office people and the business mates in parallel?

Of course you can use mobile to keep contacts with the outsiders but ultimately it will increase the phone bill and at the end of the month you have to find an alternative way to earn extra cash to settle the pages long mobile bill.

Here is a way to minimize the hassle and cheap alternative.

Use two skype instances, one for the office colleagues and other one for the business partners.

You will rise the question “how come?” else tell that I am crazy.

Nope, now you can run two instances of the skype from same machine at the same time and without switching the user.

Pre requisites;
You should have a machine running with Windows XP Professional
Should be able to add an extra machine only user account with a user name and the password (please do not keep the password for this new account as blank)

Now go to the skype installation folder and right click on the skype exe and create a short cut on the desktop (if its not there already)। Else delete the existing icon and place a new short cut on the desktop using the same procedure.

Now run the skype using normal double clicking option and log in to the usual account.

Once it started, right click on the skype short cut and use the “Run as” option.

By default you will see the current XP user login selected on the top.
Please avoid it and use the second one. From the drop down you can select the newly created windows login and can use it by entering the password for it.

This will run the second instance of the skype from the same machine.

This is just a trick। Do not get blamed from your employer for doing this and distributing the irrelevant data to irrelevant people or by bringing down your performance by chatting all the time with your partners.

I will test the same on linux and publish the results later on.