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Dialog was the first mobile operator to cover the Jaffna peninsula in Northern Sri Lanka within 90 days of the ceasefire agreement in 2002 [10] and again in 2009 was the first mobile operator to extend its GSM network to the areas in the North and East Province where the war was fought, [10] and presently has 80% market share in the region.
Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා ටෙලිකොම්, romanized: Śrī Laṃkā Ṭelikom, Tamil: ஸ்ரீலங்கா டெலிகொம்), doing business as SLT-MOBITEL, is the national telecommunications services provider in Sri Lanka and one of the country's largest companies [3] with an annual turnover in excess of Rs 100 billion.
Sri Lanka has 29 million subscribers in total, or a 131.5% penetration rate. [156] (December 2023) December 2023) The country's telecom regulator is Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL).
Initially it was called as "CallLink" and was the second mobile operator in Sri Lanka. Hutchison acquired its services in 1998 with the aim of being a nationwide operator in Sri Lanka. As of September 2018, Hutch has network coverage of approximately 90% of the entire island. Hutch announced that they acquired Etisalat on 30 November 2018.
Celltel was founded on 18 June 1989 on a Motorola TACS system, becoming the first cellular network in Sri Lanka and 36th operator in world. [5] It was then re-branded by Millicom International in January 2007, as Tigo (Sri Lanka). then it was acquired by Etisalat.
Centre for Telecommunication Research is a research-based institute at the Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC) to carry out innovative, collaborative and industry-sponsored research works in wireless communications and networking. Research activities at the CTR, both fundamental and applied, mainly focus on technologies related to the ...
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] with approximately 3 million subscribers of the Sri Lankan mobile market as of June 2024. On 27th June 2024, Dialog Axiata acquired 100% of Airtel Lanka. [4]