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Telephone
Sri lanka Rupees
(without taxes & levies)
US$ (approx US $1=Rs 104)
(as at July 2006)
Charges for installation per Direct Exchange Line (DEL)
(Colombo metropolitan area)
19,750
189.90
Monthly Rental Business and officials
1,145, 250
11-12
Resident
495
5
IDD Deposit Business
5,000
48
Resident
2,500
24
IDD call charge rates
(per minute)
USA
20
0.19
UK
20
0.19
Germany
20
0.19
Japan
20
0.19
Honkong
22
0.21
Domestic call charge rates
(per call unit)
Block rates tariff structure, First block
from 200 Call Unit (CUs), each CU
free
free
Second Block
from 201 up to 1000 CUs
3.45
0.033
Third block
from 1001 up to 3000 CUs
3.16
0.030
Final blocks
More than 3000 CUs, each CU
2.88
0.028
Facsimile
The rates for facsimile transmission are the same as telephone call charges (both domestic & international)
Telex
Connection c harge- Regestration
1,000.00
9.6
Installation charges
free
free
Monthly line rental, Colombo Metropolitan Area
4,320
42
Outside Colombo Metropolitan Area
4,320
42
Telex equipment rental (monthly)
2,000
19
Telex rates: pre unit of 6 sec. (according to the destination)
5.50 - 9.80
0.053 - 0.094
UK
7.92
0.076
Germany
7.92
0.076
USA
7.92
0.076
Japan
6.97
0.076
Hongkong
6.97
0.067
Internet services and charges - Sri Lanka Telecom
Type Of service
Monthly Rental
(Rs)
No of free hours
No of Internet/
e-mail A/C
One-time
startup fees(Rs)
Free web spaces
offered
Remarks
1
Business & Corporate Accounts
1.1
Business basic
2,500
250
5
1,500
1MB
Note 1/Not for ISP
1.2
Business Plus
4000
350
20
1500
2MB
Note
2
Network Accounts
2.1
ISDN Network Accounts
6,000
150
1
1000
Note 2/One IP
will be given
2.2
PSTN Network Accounts
4,000
150
1
1000
3
Virtual mail server
2,000
3,000
Note 4 & Note 5
4
Internet Private Dial-Up Access
Per exclusive dial-up access port
1,500
3,000
5
pop 3 mail Server Account
5,000
1,000
Note 4
6
Web Hosting
Virtual Web server Up to first Mbyte
750
1
2,000
One email A/C
with free connection charge
Mbyte
250
Note 5
7
Primary DNS Hosting
500
Nil
Note 5
8
Internet Dedicated Access Bandwith
Non-Commercial
Commercial
64 kbit/s
20,000
75,000
128 kbit/s
40,000
140,000
192 kbit/s
60,000
215,000
256 kbit/s
80,000
280,000
384 kbit/s
120,000
430,000
512 kbit/s
160,000
580,000
9
Field Visit Changes
<20 Km
20 Km - 50 Km
>50 Km
9.1
e-mail client fault rectification to customer site
Rs. 300
Rs. 500
Rs.1,000
Note 5
9.2
Fault trouble shooting on customer site LAnS (minimum)
Rs. 1,000
Rs.1,250
Rs. 1,750
Note 6
10
Temporary Accounts are offered with 150 free hours of use for a month. One time start up fee = Rs. 3,000.00
Note 1 - Is subjected to standard tariff (Rs 2 per minute) after the stipulated free hours, and an optional installation charge of 1,000 is applicable
Note 2 - Optional Installation charge is rs.2,000.00
Note 3 - Cutomer also need to obtain item 1.1 or 1.2 in order ro impliment item 3;
Note 4 - Monthly rental is inclusive of DNS rental
Note 5 - Will only be applicable if the fault is due to the customers equipment/software;
Note 6 - Appropriate changers for the work performed to be agreed by the customer and charged accordingly along with the next bill;
Note 7 - Appropriate charge for the work performed to be afreed by the customer and charged accordingly along with the next bill;
Note 8 - In the case of ISDN, the charges listed in the table below will apply.
