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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. [5] Hutchison Telecom Lanka is a member of Hutchison Asia Telecom which comprises mobile telecommunications operations in the emerging markets of Indonesia, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.
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 a network coverage of approximately 90% of the entire island. Hutch announced that they acquired Etisalat on 30 November 2018.
Etisalat (Sinhalese: එටිසලාට් Etisalat; Tamil: எடிசலாட்) (formerly known as Celltel and later Tigo), was a mobile telecommunications network in Sri Lanka. It was owned by the UAE based telecommunications operator Etisalat until December 2018.
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 ]
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 ...
Vogue Jewellers was established in 1962 by Sarath Hemachandra. [3] During the 1960s, radio jingle "Mangala mudu mala valalu" penned by lyricist Karunaratne Abeysekera, was specifically created for Vogue Jewellers and it became one of the first few jingles to have been used in Sri Lanka. [2]
[3] [2] Overseas nationals and UAE nationals have both been executed for crimes. As of 2023, the last known execution occurred in 2017. [5] Shahzadi Khan, a 33-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district, was executed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on February 15, 2025.
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.