Mobitel, a unit of fixed access provider Sri Lanka Telecom is offering Google's mobile email, calendar and document reading services to its mobile subscribers in a partnership launched in Colombo Wednesday.
"We invite you to register your name quickly before it is taken up by anyone else," chief executive Suren Amarasekera told reporters Wednesday announcing the launch of the new service. "When we checked a few minutes ago more than 1,000 names had been registered."
M3Mail, the mobile mail in Google's 'M3Apps' portfolio comes with 7.3 Gigabytes of storage.
"We believe people should be able to get information wherever they are free of charge," Jason Senn, Google's head of business development in Asia Pacific.
"The people of Sri Lanka can now enjoy the power of Google wherever they are."
Mobitel said has reported 2.9 million customers by end June 2009.
Sri Lanka's telcos are bleeding from a price war, and are fighting for subscribers.
Leisha de Silva Chandrasena said the Google service would help Sri Lanka on the road to become an "infocom and knowledge rich" society.
"Fast is better than slow," Senn said. "Speed is everything with information.
"Mobitel is extremely fast and I traveled to Galle (in southern Sri Lanka) and I have not experienced these speeds anywhere."
Mobitel says it is using '3.5G' a high speed packet access (HSPA) platform to deliver Google services.
"We invite you to register your name quickly before it is taken up by anyone else," chief executive Suren Amarasekera told reporters Wednesday announcing the launch of the new service. "When we checked a few minutes ago more than 1,000 names had been registered."
M3Mail, the mobile mail in Google's 'M3Apps' portfolio comes with 7.3 Gigabytes of storage.
"We believe people should be able to get information wherever they are free of charge," Jason Senn, Google's head of business development in Asia Pacific.
"The people of Sri Lanka can now enjoy the power of Google wherever they are."
Mobitel said has reported 2.9 million customers by end June 2009.
Sri Lanka's telcos are bleeding from a price war, and are fighting for subscribers.
Leisha de Silva Chandrasena said the Google service would help Sri Lanka on the road to become an "infocom and knowledge rich" society.
"Fast is better than slow," Senn said. "Speed is everything with information.
"Mobitel is extremely fast and I traveled to Galle (in southern Sri Lanka) and I have not experienced these speeds anywhere."
Mobitel says it is using '3.5G' a high speed packet access (HSPA) platform to deliver Google services.
