ISPs: Srilanka
The Sri Lanka Telecom-INTERNET started it's Internet Service providing facility in February, 1996.
Four private companies have been more recently received licences for data communication with the oldest of them, Electroteks, also granted a separate licence for carrying voice on data, which is form of voice mail, where compressed voice packets are transferred in store and forward manner. Of these four, Lanka Internet Service (LIS) became the first to provide on-line Internet access on a commericial basis in April, 1995. The other two operators are DataNet, Electrotec. The Infolab are also started providing internet access very recently. Infolab is a Web site which is operated as a Internet Club where subscriber can come and play their equipment as hourly bases.
Of the remainder identified in advance, CeyCOM and ITMIN are yet to begin full operations while ToolNet and Sri Lanka Academic and Research Network (LEARN) are currently extablished electronic mail networks serving academic and research interest.
The LEARN, which is used by three universities in Sri Lanka, will be connected from PSTN subscriber through an IP Router to the SLT data communication network. LEARN is a TCP/IP based electronic mail network among the univesities with a total of some 50 academic and research institute and non-profit organisations including NGO's among its clients. LEARN already uses Internet domain name addressing and has been allocated an official block of IP addresses. LEARN is supported by the University Grant Commission (UGC) and the Computer and Information Technology Council (CINTEC) of Sri Lanka.
The former based in the Arthur Clarke Centre for Modern Technologies (ACCMT) is a Fido based system served by the Tool Server in the Netherlands with gateway to other networks including the Internet.