Mobitel HSDPA (3G) Connection - Review

After using my Mobitel 3G Data connection for more than a year, I thought of writing a small review here about it. Initially, the service was very good. Only problem I had was it did not have connectivity in my home town, Aranayake. Therefore, the advertisement of the school teacher at a rural school seemed to be misleading.

The service degraded so rapidly in recent times. Now it is at a worst situation. It is quite difficult to get connected. Most of the time it returns the “error 619” for my BandLuxe modem.

From modem literature I found that this error is due to the fact that the network refuses the connection probably because I have not paid my bill. I pay online and pay all my bills on time. So, the only probability is that Mobitel refuses the connection because they have issued more connections than they can serve. This is further substantiated by “connection drop” occurring very often, especially if no data transfers occurred for few seconds. This is real troublesome and risky when I had to do online payments. Once, a payment was done, but I could not get the certified receipt since the connection suddenly dropped.

When I’m lucky to get connected the connection speed is only 64 Kbps, which almost like GPRS (EDGE).

All these problems are there when I use it during day time, especially in late evening when many would be trying to get connected; and never occurred in dawn.

I think they drop active connections to serve the other requests for connection. In my opinion, Mobitel follows a poor business strategy. They try to increase their customer base at the expense of the satisfaction of their current customers. They will ultimately loose all their customers.

I will never recommend Mobitel 3G Data connection to you. Cheers.

Above is my personal opinion upon experience as a customer of Mobitel 3G Data connection offered by Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel, and I have not verified the technical facts from experts.

However, You should notice that Mobitel Sri Lanka offers cheap HSDPA packages for "Upahara" users. These would not be matched by Dialog.

Is Quantity Surveying a Profession in Sri Lanka

This is a question I used to ask my colleagues at various forums. “Yes” was the answer of the most. A few had no straight answer while nobody said “No”. But, by looking at this from the perspective of general public, most of the times I feel it is not....!

What the general public knows as Quantity Surveying is a set of activities (known as a preparation of BOQ and Estimate) that anybody with a little bit exposure to construction and O/L mathematics (or lesser) can perform. If that level of performance can be achieved without a rigorous training and with a good level of IQ, I wouldn’t call it a profession. Therefore in Sri Lanka, Quantity Surveying is not a profession yet.

Where is the problem? It is simply there with the clients’ knowledge. They don’t know the true value of Quantity Surveying. Why, because they are not been delivered with the true value of Quantity Surveying. So, it is time for us to think how to overcome this.

: : It is time to wake up : :

Do you feel safe at Facebook

Maybe not as much you think you are. Read the articles on the following links to safeguard yourself from various vulnerabilities when you use online social networks such as Facebook and Hi5. These are mostly about your information being disclosed which sometimes be life threatening.

TechCert Basic Security Tips

Millions of Facebook users putting themselves at risk of online crime - DailyMail

In this news the police had accessed the postings, so why wouldn’t some others. Read Facebook crime-boasts help police nab cons

I also recommend you to watch the movie "Eagle Eye" to understand the risk you are facing.

Just think, if a stranger brows through your facebook wall, the network of friends, photographs, etc. will know a lot about you: how you look, your personality, your best friends, your birthday, what you did last weekend, your school, your favorites, and a lot more. You may think this is not possible for a stranger (i.e. someone not in your friends list). Well, read this

These are only few news I got through google search. Try yourself: some keywords such as – facebook crimes, facebook compromised

Think, someday, someone hacks into your facebook account, change both the password and email address for password recovery, and pretends to be you. Your friends will never know and will believe it’s you. Because he’ll continue to use the same style of language as you did, use the same nicknames for friends, use the same abbreviations as you did, and so on. And the worst thing is that you can’t warn your friends, because you will have no access to your facebook account anymore. Just imagine what that someone can do. How about framing you for a crime? How about linking yourself to some terrorist network, and get your friends to do some little things they want to get done?

So, my dear friends, this is why I opt to delete my account. So, now you can’t see me in your network. But, you should know that, I checked recently and my profile is still there, it is only invisible to you all (but probably not for hackers and police). So, I am not capable of eliminating the threat howmuch I try. But, I feel I have minimized it to the possible extent only.

Wishing you a safe future, I request you to take extra care when you use online networks.