Dialog launches customer trials in Colombo on 100 Mbps home broadband

  Dialog Broadband, a subsidiary of the Dialog Group, has commenced its LTE Advanced Pilot Network that will provide data speeds exceeding 100Mbps for home broadband users in Colombo.   The customer trial follows successful exposition of 100 Mbps Broadband delivery at INET Colombo 2015, an event organized by the Sri Lanka Chapter of the Internet Society to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Internet in Sri Lanka, the company said on Tuesday.   Dialog’s Pilot Network is fully functional in Colombo 5 and 6 and the company said it will invite selected home broadband customers in the corresponding zones to experience the enhanced data speeds. "The launch of the LTE Advanced service forms part of Dialog's plan to take ultrafast broadband to the next level," Azwan Khan, Chief Operating Officer of Dialog Axiata PLC said. "LTE Advanced is the next evolution of 4G, boosting capacity and connection speeds to unprecedented levels”.   Currently the heavily-advertised 4G package to home users promises data speeds of upto 40 Mbps.