ltd trading name airtel native name type private company industry telecomunication founded january 12 2009 2009 01 12 in colombo sri lanka headquarters wtc colombo 01 sri lanka key people jinesh hegde chief executive officer managing director products mobile services parent bharti airtel website www.airtel.lk airtel sinhala bharti eyatel lanka prayivat limitad is the brand name of mobile network operator bharti airtel lanka pvt. ltd the sri lankan subsidiary of indian 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 . 1 airtel had over 1.7 million active subscribers as of january 2013 update . contents 1 network data 2 history 3 network implementation 4 airtel 3.5 g and 3.75 g broadband and coverage 5 see also 6 references 7 external links network data edit mnc 413 05 operator code 075 history edit airtel lanka limited is a subsidiary of bharti airtel limited the third largest mobile operator in the world with over 325.90 million mobile customers as of september 2015 . 2 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 . citation needed 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 good coverage except national parks and forests . 3 network implementation edit airtel currently uses gsm and umts hspa technologies . airtel 3.5 g and 3.75 g broadband and coverage edit initially airtel was offering cheapest mobile broadband plans starting at 5gb for rs . 299 but later it discontinued due lack of international bandwidth and financial loss it had incurred . in end of 2011 airtel announced its unlimited mobile broadband plan for rs . 1 499 and it became the best unlimited data plan in mobile market in sri lanka . airtel covers 30 % of the population with 3g like colombo gampaha negombo kandy galle matara ampara jaffna badulla bandarawela and airtel has covered colombo and greater colombo using the hspa technology . airtel is improving their gsm coverage rapidly and they have 1600 2g base stations on operation island wide and 650 3g base stations . airtel started their service in northern sri lanka on october 2010 and subsequently airtel broadband was available in august 2011 in jaffna district . airtel invested 20 million in 2014 to improve their island wide 3g coverage . 4 see also edit airtel india airtel bangladesh airtel africa references edit airtel invests 0m on network daily news 13 january 2009 bharti airtel crosses 100 million customers mark http airtel.lk airtelsl coverage map.jsp airtel rings over rs . 2 b investment on 3g network expansion in sri lanka . 18 december 2013 . retrieved 10 august 2014 . external links edit official website 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 airtel sri lanka & oldid 731462515 categories telecommunications companies of sri lankabharti airtelhidden categories engvarb from april 2014use dmy dates from april 2014articles containing sinhalese language textarticles containing potentially dated statements from january 2013all articles containing potentially dated statementsall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from september 2014 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 25 july 2016 at 14 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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