Lanka Bell to represent country at international ICT competition

One of two innovative software solutions developed by the IT team of Lanka Bell, Sri Lanka’s CDMA pioneer, will compete against similar products from 16 other countries at the seventh international Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) in Singapore later this month, the company said.

The product, ‘Lanka Bell SMS Gateway’ was short-listed to compete at this prestigious event following its success at the National Best Quality Software Awards hosted by the Sri Lanka Chapter of the British Computer Society (BCS) last month. SMS Gateway, used to launch the first ever fixed-line SMS banking application in Sri Lanka won the Bronze award in the Communications category at these awards and was one of the few products selected to represent Sri Lanka at the APICTA competition from November 26 to 29.

The second Lanka Bell Product that was recognised at the national competition was ‘Bell Soft Telco Solutions’ an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application which won a merit award.

“These awards reflect the innovativeness, creativity and skills of Lanka Bell’s IT team,” said the company’s Managing Director Suren Goonewardene. “Behind the success of any ‘telco’ today is a highly skilled IT capability, and we are proud to represent Sri Lanka at the forthcoming competition.”