Srilanka, Feb. 22 -- The Digital Economy Ministry officials on Thursday informed the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Digital Economic Affairs that plans are under way to construct 50 new signal towers in selected areas which would help reduce signal disruptions.

The Ministry officials said so when Parliamentarians brought the attention of the committee over weak telephone signals when it met under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Parliament on Thursday.

The officials said that signal towers will be installed in identified areas under the Village Communication Programme and it will help reduce signal disruptions.

The Committee also discussed the possibility of mobile phone users to regain the same mobile pho...