Bharti Airtel to begin operations in Sri Lanka
Posted on | May 17, 2007 |
Bharti Airtel has received approval to become the 5th operator in Sri Lanka. It will invest $150 million to start its 2G and 3G services in the country.
Outside India, Bharti Airtel operates in the Seychelles and the UK Channel Islands.
The other companies which placed their bids for the license were Reliance Communications and Maxis Telecom.
Sri Lanka snapshot:
- 4.5 million mobile phone subscribers as of 2006
- Telekom Malaysia’s Dialog Telekom is the top operator with 3.3 million subscribers
- Followed by Mobitel, Celltel Lanka and Hutchison
- Phone penetration at 20%
- 3 fixed line operators
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April 6th, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
Yah i was an airtel customer for a long time when i was in india..Been a sri lankan i know What’s the GSM succes in sri lanka but the thing is if airtel did a remarkable lay out it will be super than other achievements….Airtel can introduce their lucrative packages also…..Airtel magic come on …….cheers