1. Infrastructure for knowledge economies By Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia

2. www.lirneasia.net Information infrastructure is a pillar of KE  Companies, government, non-profit organizations (including educational) and people must be able to Communicate in multiple forms, locally and globally Retrieve information locally and globally Publish Transact Compute remotely, etc.

3. www.lirneasia.net For organizations, including those engaged in BPO  Broadband that is Readily available In configurations that are responsive to customer needs  Including service-level agreements and  Redundancy Value for money (price + quality)  Generally provided over fixed links, fiber or copper But now increasingly over wireless

4. www.lirneasia.net For people  Broadband that is Ubiquitous Flexible Value for money  For most in Sri Lanka Over mobile networks With common-use sites as complement

5. www.lirneasia.net Common elements for both  International private leased lines of good quality (including redundancy) and price  Domestic backbone available to all operators at cost-oriented prices and on non-discriminatory basis  Security and payment infrastructure

6. www.lirneasia.net What is current situation with...  International link Three operators after international liberalization of 2003-04 Gateway still not fully open  Domestic backbone Two major networks No open access  Security and payment infrastructure Not in place Inchoate payment network developing in mobile

7. www.lirneasia.net Domestic leased line prices (2 MB/2 km, benchmarked with S Asia Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 – Preliminary results, LIRNEasia, http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/ 12,000 55,393 23,393 49432 2,438 3,249 18,803 358

8. www.lirneasia.net Domestic leased line prices (2 MB/100 km, benchmarked with S Asia Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 – Preliminary results, LIRNEasia, http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/ 2,760,290 2,437 4,447 18,283 40,576 6,350

9. www.lirneasia.net Business broadband (2MB, Unlimited offering), benchmarked Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 – Preliminary results, LIRNEasia, http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/ a 119 57,385 3,779 4,540 556 16,619

10. www.lirneasia.net Business broadband (256kbps, Unlimited offering), benchmarked Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 – Preliminary results, LIRNEasia, http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/ 8,608 8,016 964 241 303 250 2,091 119

11. www.lirneasia.net Home broadband (256kbps, Unlimited offering), benchmarked Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 – Preliminary results, LIRNEasia, http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/ 6,695 2,680 964 379 303 250379 119

12. www.lirneasia.net Business broadband QOS, India & Sri Lanka

13. www.lirneasia.net Home broadband QOS, India & Sri Lanka

14. www.lirneasia.net Broadband and Mobile Benchmarks South Asia: Feb 2008 can be found at: http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/