Around 200 Indian and Sri Lankan Telecom and IT experts, top and senior management executives and government officials from varied fields including telecom and mobile phone provides will be participating at Sri Lanka Telecom Summit in Colombo on March 4.
Several highly respected Indian IT and Telecom experts have already expressed their willingness to exchange their views amongst the delegates within their field of expertise in Srilankan telecom space, an eminent Indian IT expert Anand Parthasarthy told the Business Times.
He said that the Summit will act as a useful and powerful forum for all participants to understand which Innovations will help in driving growth in the SAARC region.
He added that this will be a good opportunity for making useful Business contacts in the region.
The theme of the Summit is ‘Envisioning a revolutionary growth in the Telecommunication sector.’ Consolidating government backing to the ICT sector, Sri Lanka has the most liberalized telecom industry in South Asia.
The Sri Lankan authorities have taken many significant initiatives to boost telecom in the country coupled with the fact that Sri Lanka is among four countries that offer the most affordable mobile services in Asia and the world, a senior official of Sri Lanka Telecom said.
With mobile penetration of around 35% and growing at a rate of approximately two million mobile users per annum, Sri Lanka is the next growth engine for the telecom industry after India in SAARC Region.
Sri Lanka has already moved towards a fully liberalized telecommunications market environment where all the telecom operators are achieving over 50% growth year on year, he said. |
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