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| Written by Amal Jayasinghe - Lanka Business Online | |
| Thursday, 19 January 2006 | |
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After decades of waiting, telephones have finally begun ringing in villages and rural areas across Sri Lanka.Not mobiles, nor standard landlines, but a clever combination of the two that is quickly making telephony accessible to all.
CDMA is commonly used by operators in Asia and elsewhere for faster mobile phone connections but in Sri Lanka it is being used to provide fixed-line access so that telecommunication is available at affordable prices even in the most far flung regions.
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