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As of 2018 SLT-MOBITEL was Sri Lanka's second largest mobile network operator with over 7.9 million subscribers. [ 4 ] SLT-MOBITEL offers a variety of services and currently operates GSM , GPRS , EDGE , UMTS , HSPA , HSPA+ , DC-HSPA+ and FD-LTE network utilising 2G , 3.5G , 4G and 4.5G , 5G technologies with VoLTE service. [ 5 ]
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).
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.
Hutch Sri Lanka operates a GSM/EDGE/HSPA+/4G supported network using 900 / 1800 MHz. In 2012 the company launched HSPA+ services using 2100 MHz [7] The company launched 4G via 1800 MHz B3 from 2018 [8] and 900 MHz B8 from 2019. Hutch demonstrated 5G experience in Sri Lanka on 17 March 2021 with the cooperation of ZTE technologies [9] .
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 ...
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.
Satellite TV in Sri Lanka began in 2005 as CBNsat. However, it was later acquired by the island's mobile GSM Operator, Dialog and was relaunched as Dialog TV. In 2015 Dish TV India started their operations in Sri Lanka in a joint venture with Satnet (Pvt) Ltd, as Dish TV Lanka which is now the 2nd largest DTH Operator in the island.