Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) announced an automatic 100 percent bandwidth upgrade for its existing 'Entree' Broadband customers who will now enjoy speeds up to 1 Mbps; and a significant increase of included data for all volume based broadband packages.

Customers who are using the 'Entree' (512 kbps) Broadband Package will now experience downlink speeds doubled up to 1 Mbps with this automatic bandwidth upgrade, and will enjoy an additional 500 MB that amounts to 1.5 GB of total data volume every month with no additional monthly charge. 'Home Plus' (formally known as 'Xcite Plus') package (1 Mbps downlink speed) will be upgraded with not only a usage volume increase to 8GB, But with a 25 percent reduction of the monthly charge to Rs 1,500 from Rs 2,000. Other volume based packages also now include increases of upto 100 percent in the included data: 'Office Plus' (2 Mbps downlink speed now includes 15 GB) and 'Xcel plus' (4 Mbps downlink speed now includes 21 GB).

In addition, for all volume based ADSL broadband packages, SLT has reduced by 30 percent the charge for each additional 1 MB from 50 cents per MB to 35 cents per MB.

All existing SLT broadband customers who are using Entree, Home Plus, Office Plus and Xcel Plus volume based packages will benefit from the free speed boost and increase of data volumes to their internet experience.

These enhancements will be available automatically to broadband users from January 1, 2011 onwards.

SLT CEO Greg Young said, "Sri Lanka's broadband market is rapidly expanding and we are proud to say that SLT continues to drive increasing penetration and access to broadband.

"We have introduced significant improvements for our customers in quality of service, international internet bandwidth and new broadband packages to suit every customer requirement. All our volume based broadband packages are free of bandwidth control and contention, to provide customers with a rich internet experience. These latest initiatives continue to support the Government's ICT development policy and program," he said.


Courtesy: DailyNews

Posted on Monday, January 03, 2011 @ 08:58:08 LKT by SaNDuN

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