name mobitel native name mobitel private limited type subsidiary industry mobile telecommunications predecessor otc australia pvt ltd founded 1993 1993 in colombo sri lanka headquarters colombo 02 sri lanka key people nalin perera coo products mobile mobile broadband mobile money parent sri lanka telecom plc website www.mobitel.lk mobitel sinhala mobitel pud samagama is the national mobile service provider in sri lanka . the network offers a variety of services and currently operates gsm gprs edge umts hspa hspa dc hspa and fd lte network utilising 2g 3.5 g and 4g technologies . 1 it covers most of sri lanka with its gsm network . mobitel offers both prepaid and postpaid mobile services along with mobile broadband services using the 3.5 g network and postpaid mobile services along with mobile broadband services using the 4g network . mobitel also launched mobile money services on november 2013 which is called mcash 2 making the mobile phone a financial instrument . the service is licensed by the central bank of sri lanka cbsl . contents 1 about mobitel 2 history 3 network 4 global 5 value added services 6 references 7 external links about mobitel edit mobitel sri lanka s national mobile service provider which started operations in 1993 became a wholly owned subsidiary of slt in october 2002 . in january 2004 the company launched its fully fledged 2.5 g gsm network that is edge gprs enabled and designed to operate on dual band . in december 2007 the company launched its 3.5 g hspa network the first super 3.5 g network in south asia . further mobitel successfully demonstrated hspa mimo technology with down link speed up to 28.8 mbit s and carried out successful trial of 4g lte technology with downlink speed exceeding 96 mbit s for the first time in the south asian region . investments committed to date in the 2.5 g 3.5 g 4g networks and service offering amounts to over us 500mn . 3 history edit mobitel was incorporated in 1993 as the third mobile telephone provider in the sri lankan market . originally a collaboration between sri lanka telecom and telstra mobitel has been wholly owned by slt since november 2002 . following the successful implementation and operation of an amps tdma network in the country mobitel launched its gsm operations in january 2004 with the deployment of a fully fledged gsm network in the 800 mhz and 1800 mhz band which is edge gprs enabled . in 2005 and 2006 mobitel traded the 800 mhz band for slots made available from the 900 mhz spectrum . with this enhancement mobitel embarked on a field trial of 3g at the 1st international buddhist conference held in 2006 setting the stage for the launch of its 3g services in sri lanka . investments committed to date for this technology to provide 3g and gsm totals over us 200 million . 4 this included increasing the present number of base stations from 600 to 1 500 by the end of 2008 readme 2012 . network edit mobitel currently operates a 4g lte network with downlink speeds of up to 100 mbit s and uplink speed up to 50 mbit s. verification needed it is also serving customers with over 3000 gsm and 1200 3.5 g base stations islandwide . citation needed global edit mobitel provides international services with gsm roaming coverage of over 200 countries 5 and gprs roaming coverage of over 120 countries 6 including bilateral partnerships with global carriers . value added services edit mobitel offers a variety of value added services mobile money 4g lte dc hspa hspa hspa wap gprs mms closed user group services sms banking echannelling directories menu based services ota which are updated to the sim card international roaming facilities in over 200 countries while including special services such as the voice notification messages which alert a person on roaming status and other features such as call home and sms roaming mfax m3 apps powered by google apps mtunes live scores of cricket matches references edit http www.mobitel.lk 4g lte . missing or empty title help ; external link in website help ; missing or empty url help http www.mobitel.lk mcash . missing or empty title help ; external link in website help ; missing or empty url help http www.ft.lk 2014 07 11 mobitel powers mystore lk the largest online store in sri lanka . missing or empty title help ; external link in website help ; missing or empty url help http uk.reuters.com article 2007 12 05 markets srilanka telecom idukcol12057220071205 . missing or empty title help ; external link in website help ; missing or empty url help postpaid out roaming networks . gprs out roaming networks . external links edit home page v t e telecommunications in sri lanka landline operators dialog sri lanka telecom lanka bell mobile network operators airtel dialog etisalat hutch mobitel retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mobitel sri lanka & oldid 744376936 categories sri lanka telecomtelecommunications companies of sri lankasri lankan brandshidden categories pages with citations lacking titlescs1 errors external linkspages using web citations with no urlpages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall pages needing factual verificationwikipedia articles needing factual verification from july 2015all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 14 october 2016 at 20 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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