Lanka Bell & EPIC launched country’s first CDMA credit card terminals |
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| Sri Lanka’s telecommunication solutions giant Lanka Bell partnered with EPIC Lanka Technologies to introduce the first CDMA credit card swipe terminals, also known as point of sale or POS terminals to Sri Lankan businesses, achieving another technology first. |
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| From left: Shivantha Fernando (Asst Vice President – Customer Support, Epic Lanka), Viraj Mudalige (Director/General Manager, Epic Lanka), Nayana Dehigama (Chairman/Managing Director, Epic Lanka), Prasad Samarasinghe (Managing Director, Lanka Bell), Ms Sharmini Jayasuriya (General Manager – Legal, Lanka Bell) and Mansoor Rishad (General Manager – Enterprise & International Business, Lanka Bell) |
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| The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on March 24, 2009 to launch the point of sale terminals that can be used with CDMA connectivity, as opposed to fixed lines currently required for such machines. EPIC Lanka Technologies (Private) Limited will be responsible for the sale, software application developments and maintenance of the equipment, while Lanka Bell will provide the CDMA network facility and support for CDMA network configuration for the POS hardware. |
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| “The arrival of CDMA point of sale machines will mean a new dimension in convenience to merchants,” said Lanka Bell Managing Director Prasad Samarasinghe. “Businesses can set up and run a point of sale terminal much faster, and there is also the ability to support field sales units with this new technology.” |
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| Nayana Dehigama, Chairman/Managing Director of EPIC Lanka Technologies said: “We are pleased to have Lanka Bell as our connectivity partner for the new point of sale terminals with CDMA technology. A high quality connection is very important to ensure an uninterrupted service, which is why Lanka Bell is the exclusive service provider for this groundbreaking development.” |
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| EPIC Lanka Technologies is part of the EPIC Lanka Group, a technology leader renowned for innovations with a proven track record of 11 years in providing software solutions in Secure Electronic Payments, Information Systems Security, Mobile Enterprise Automation and Secure Document Personalization to corporate organizations in the region. The winner of the National Business Excellence Award in the ICT sector, Epic Lanka demonstrated the company’s quest for excellence by winning an unprecedented 13 national and international accolades with eight Gold Awards in 2008. |
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| The only 100 per cent Sri Lankan owned company in the telecommunications sector, Lanka Bell is the second largest ‘fixed line’ provider in the country with more than a million subscribers. Lanka Bell continues to make substantial investments to take its technology and services to all geographic regions and all segments of the market in Sri Lanka and has 60 of its very own fully fledged business offices island-wide. Lanka Bell’s Rs 3 billion investment to link the country to FLAG, the world’s largest private undersea fibre optic cable system, has enabled the company to secure unrestricted broadband access to support an extensive range of voice and data solutions. |
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