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Bharti Airtel Lanka is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Limited. Bharti Airtel Lanka commenced commercial operations of services in Sri Lanka on January 12, 2009, as the fifth entrant in a highly saturated market, and was the fastest operator to reach 1 million customers in Sri Lanka. Best Airtel Couple Package ➡️ Unlimited Calls Free between SIMs ➡️ 2000 Messages Free for both ➡️ 4Gb Data Anytime Data Free for both ➡️ Any other.
airtel | |
Subsidiary | |
Industry | Telecommunication |
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Founded | 12 January 2009 |
Headquarters | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Sri Lanka | |
Key people | Jinesh Hegde (Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director) |
Products | Mobile Telecommunications, Mobile Broadband |
Parent | Bharti Airtel |
Website | www.airtel.lk |
Airtel (Sinhalese: එයාටෙල් Eyatel; Tamil: ஏர்டெல்) is the brand name of mobile network operator, Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd,[1][2] the Sri Lankan subsidiary of Indian multinational telecommunications company Bharti Airtel. The company was awarded a mobile phone operator license in 2006 and was scheduled to start operations in early 2007, however the company didn't commence services until 12 January 2009.[3] Airtel has over 2.9 million active subscribers as of September 2018.[4]
Network data[edit]
- MNC: 413 05
- Operator code: 075
History[edit]
Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd[5] is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Limited, the Second largest mobile operator in the world, with over 384.07 million mobile customers as of April 2019.[6] Bharti Airtel has been featured in Forbes Asia's Fab 50 list, rated amongst the best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007, and voted as India's most innovative company in a survey by The Wall Street Journal.[citation needed]
Airtel Sri Lanka commenced commercial operations of services on 13 January 2009. Granted a license in 2007 in accordance with the Sri Lanka Telecommunications Act No. 25 of 1991, it is also a registered company under the Board of Investment Sri Lanka. Under the license, the company provides digital mobile services to Sri Lanka. This is inclusive of voice telephony, voice mail, data services and GSM based services. All of these services are provided under the airtel brand.
Airtel Sri Lanka has island wide coverage.[7]
Network implementation[edit]
Airtel currently uses GSM and UMTS/HSPA+ technologies.
Airtel 3.5G, 3.75G and 4G broadband and coverage[edit]
Airtel have 1600+ 2G base stations on operation island-wide and 650+ 3G base stations with dual carrier HSPA+ technology.
Airtel invested $20 million in 2014 to improve their island-wide 3G Coverage.[8]
Airtel has planned to launch 4G service in May 2020. Currently, the company is upgrading existing 3G SIM cards to 4G SIM cards.
References[edit]
- ^'Contacy us - Airtel Sri Lanka'. airtel.lk.
- ^'Tariff Regulation - Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka'. TRCSL.
- ^Airtel invests ,0m on networkArchived 20 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine Daily News, 13 January 2009
- ^'Mobitel, Dialog welcome Hutch-Etisalat merger'. theMorning.lk. 9 December 2018.
- ^About Airtel
- ^Bharti Airtel crosses 100 million customers mark
- ^http://airtel.lk/coverage-map.html
- ^'Airtel rings over Rs. 2 b investment on 3G network expansion in Sri Lanka'. 18 December 2013. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
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