Airtel Sri Lanka


Airtel is the brand name of mobile network operator, Bharti Airtel Lanka Ltd, 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. Airtel has over 2.9 million active subscribers as of 2018.

Network data

Bharti Airtel Lanka Ltd 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. 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.
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.

Network implementation

Airtel currently uses GSM and UMTS/HSPA+ technologies.

Airtel DC-HSPA+ broadband and coverage

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.