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The first use of 3-1-1 for informational services was in Baltimore, Maryland, where the service commenced on 2 October 1996. [2] 3-1-1 is intended to connect callers to a call center that can be the same as the 9-1-1 call center, but with 3-1-1 calls assigned a secondary priority, answered only when no 9-1-1 calls are waiting.
is the international call prefix (usually 00). 94: is Sri Lanka's country code. xx: represents the area code. (i.e. omitting the leading 0 used when calling inside Sri Lanka). y: represents the operator code. zzzzzz: represents the main telephone number of six digits.
As of 2018 SLT-MOBITEL was Sri Lanka's second largest mobile network operator with over 7.9 million subscribers. [ 4 ] SLT-MOBITEL offers a variety of services and currently operates GSM , GPRS , EDGE , UMTS , HSPA , HSPA+ , DC-HSPA+ and FD-LTE network utilising 2G , 3.5G , 4G and 4.5G , 5G technologies with VoLTE service. [ 5 ]
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Both countries of South Africa and Sri Lanka were part of the Dutch and British Empires. Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) was a Dutch colony from 1658 - 1796 and a British colony from 1815 - 1948 while South Africa (mainly the Dutch Cape colony) was a Dutch colony from 1652 - 1806 and a British colony (including other parts of South Africa) from 1806 - 1910.
California has the highest number of Sri Lankans of any U.S. state at 14,008. [9] Meanwhile, Maryland has the highest share of Sri Lankans at 0.07%. [10] Little Sri Lanka, in the Tompkinsville neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, is one of the largest Sri Lankan communities outside of the country of Sri Lanka itself.
African Sri Lankans, mainly the Sri Lanka Kaffirs, are a very small Ethnic group in Sri Lanka who are descendants of African mercenaries, musicians, and labourers taken to what is now Sri Lanka by Portuguese colonists during the period of Portuguese colonial rule on the island. [3] There are currently around 1,000 African Sri Lankans.
The Sri Lankan diaspora are Sri Lankan emigrants and expatriates from Sri Lanka that reside in a foreign country.. An estimate in 2013 by the United Nations concluded that the diaspora numbered around three million, with large concentrations in Europe, Middle East, East Asia, Australia and North America.