telecommunications staff. Sri Lanka is a developing economy off the southern coast of India.

In spite of years of civil war, the country has recorded strong growth rates in recent years. The main sectors of the Sri Lanka's economy are tourism, tea export, apparel, textile and rice production. Remittances also constitute an important part of country's revenue.

Telephone lines are fixed telephone lines that connect a subscriber's terminal equipment to the public switched telephone network and that have a port on a telephone exchange. Integrated services digital network channels ands fixed wireless subscribers are included. Sri Lanka is a developing economy off the southern coast of India. In spite of years of civil war, the country has recorded strong growth rates in recent years. The main sectors of the Sri Lanka's economy are tourism, tea export, apparel, textile and rice production. Remittances also constitute an important part of country's revenue.

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology, which provide access to the public switched telephone network. Post-paid and prepaid subscriptions are included.

Population covered by mobile cellular network is the percentage of people that live in areas served by a mobile cellular signal regardless of whether they use it.

expenditure associated with acquiring the ownership of telecommunication equipment infrastructure (including supporting land and buildings and intellectual and nontangible property such as computer software). These include expenditure on initial installations and on additions to existing installations.

Telecommunications revenue is the revenue from the provision of telecommunications services such as fixedline, mobile, and data.

Residential fixed-line tariff is the monthly subscription charge plus the cost of 30 three-minute local calls (15 peak and 15 off-peak).

Economic Co-operation and Development's low-user definition, which includes the cost of monthly mobile use for 25 outgoing calls per month spread over the same mobile network, other mobile networks, and mobile to fixed-line calls and during peak, off-peak, and weekend times as well as 30 text messages per month.

International voice traffic is the sum of international incoming and outgoing telephone traffic (in minutes).

International Internet bandwidth is the contracted capacity of international connections between countries for transmitting Internet traffic

International Internet bandwidth is the contracted capacity of international connections between countries for transmitting Internet traffic.

Fixed broadband Internet access tariff is the lowest sampled cost per 100 kilobits a second per month and are calculated from low- and high-speed monthly service charges. Monthly charges do not include installation fees or modem rentals.

Secure servers are servers using encryption technology in Internet transactions.