Welcome to the ChiranthaSoft Software Development Website. ChiranthaSoft is a small software company in Sri Lanka. The company has been in existence since the year 2003. ChiranthaSoft is owned by a single Sri Lankan, Chirantha Amerasinghe. The mission of ChiranthaSoft is to improve the software industry not only within Sri Lanka but in the world by encouraging high quality Freeware development.

Message From Founder

My fellow viewers, I write this message in deep sorrow. As a person that dedicated myself through charity to bring interest to IT in to minds of Sri Lankan's it seems that my whole path has backfired and demolished itself. As you may know, the government of Sri Lanka in its attempts uplift internet standards has in term destroyed the future IT development of Sri Lanka. It was a well known fact that bandwidth capabilities of Sri Lanka were under a bitter challenge as more people propagated to use of computers and internet broadband (2% of the population, at the moment). As forth the government trying to do good established the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) to govern all Internet Service Providers of the country, through this the government took control and was able to control prices of internet and Quality of Service provided by ISP's in the country.

The Government of Sri Lanka in its attempts to provide a better service to consumers of broadband bought in regulations that forced ISP's to maintain published speeds to consumers. ADSL and WiMAX technologies till this date used shared bandwidth lines providing decent service to all consumers. However due to new regulations that were enforced as of 1st January 2011, many ISP's had to implement a Fair Usage Policy to all its users. All said unlimited broadband connections were restricted to 20GB of broadband speed bandwidth. Users going over this limit would be thrown into a heavy loaded throttled bandwidth allocations causing unreasonable speeds of just around 6-7KB/s. As a result, the ChiranthaSoft Testing Server, Mobile service and all other services that came under them have been crippled.

As you may know, ISP's have given options for people like us. They expect a person like me to pay Rs. 350/- (3.5 USD approx) per Gigabyte of data . Which is seriously heavy price for people like us.

Furthermore, computer experts, students of online exams, and other respected individuals would have to download at least 60GB of data per month to stay up to date with international standards, though they have been affected ignoring and over sighting them purposely, in a government effort to say "the law is fair to everyone". Putting our monthly bills at around Rs. 21,350/- (200USD approx.) in a country with an individual yearly income of just 1000USD. If these values don't mean a restriction and violation of human rights, I have no idea what does.

The most effected people are Cyber-cafe's users, Cyber-cafe's which allowed internet access through ADSL lines, provided cheap and affordable rates to many hundreds and thousands of low income people in Sri Lanka who couldn't not afford a computer or high priced ADSL equipment. And allow internet access to children who's parents disapproved computers, depicting them as a obstacles to education, and in a society like this, it seems that the government has forgotten who it is serving.

However, the beneficiaries of this regulation are the common middle class developing computer person who would use very little bandwidth browse Facebook, read e-mails, watch youtube, explore new information, and download some pictures, and sadly yes, watch pornographic content. In fact, these regulations would encourage pornographic viewing throughout the country as speed improvement for domestic users means teenagers would have access to fast encrypted proxy servers and easily evade the content filters set by parents through ISP's. The total end result in my point of view is that the government has given a fast car for teenagers and adults who don't know to drive it, and giving the belching bus to the ones that know how. I have no other way to put it.

-Chirantha Amerasinghe