Combating Mobile Phone Addiction

Korea

• 90% of the students age 14 to 19 have mobile phones,
• 38% of that send more than 1,000 text messages per month
• 44% are texting even during lectures

A Programm to fight mobile addiction among teenagers has been launched in South Korea.

They say exessive use of the mobile phone is not good for the health. Nowadays teenages world over are using it daily and are indeed addicted. And waste a lot of their parents money. Would other countries adopt the idea?

Read more on this anti addiction project

the M3

Mobitel has unleashed M3 it’s ‘super-3.5G’ service.

With an investment exceeding USD 200 million in its 2.5G/3.5G networks is now fully fledged to provide Mobitel customers with the best ‘super-3.5G’ not only in Sri Lanka but also in the whole of South Asia.

Equipped with a king size packet core powered by full duplex High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology, has a downlink rate of up to 7.2 Mbps and a uplink rate of up to 1.92 Mbps with the use of High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) technologies respectively.

• For more info catch the latest on press release
• Check out Mobitel broadband M3
• What on earth is HSPA, HSDPA and HSUPA ??