Dialog GSM-Daily News begin news alert service

COLOMBO: Dialog GSM and the Daily News yesterday began their breaking news service at exactly 8.08 a.m. An agreement on this service was signed yesterday at Lake House.

During the first month, the service will be free to subscribers. Dialog GSM customers can subscribe to the service by typing ACT DNEWS and sending a SMS to 678. The service will be activated within four hours.

News headlines can be accessed by customers in their preferred method via SMS or IVR.

In order to access the headlines via IVR customers can dial 555 to access Breaking News in Sinhala or Tamil, or dial 777 to access Breaking News in English. Group Chief Marketing Officer, Dialog Telekom Nushad Perera said "With the Ceylon Daily News getting on board with the Dialog Breaking News service we have further complemented our balanced approach to providing news on the phone, as it happens, when it happens.

The Daily News is recognised as an authentic source of news and ANCL is one of Sri Lanka's most trusted and reliable news houses." Dialog Telekom PLC, the largest and fastest growing cellular service in Sri Lanka, serves a subscriber base in excess of 4.5 million Sri Lankans.

It has also ventured to CDMA telephony, broadband internet and satellite television services.