Airtel Diversification
Company background
Airtel Lanka Limited is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Limited, the third largest mobile operator in the world, with over 240 million mobile customers as of December 2011.[3] 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 good coverage,except National Parks and Forests and holds 2.5 million subscribers as of September 2011.at the moment,there is no Coverage map available.[4]
[edit] Pre launch
Before launching services officially, Airtel opened up their branch offices island wide and allowed customers to book their number beforehand. Forms were given at all branch offices and customers were given an option of choosing five numbers, out of which one number was given based on availability. This booking system started on January 5 and was expected to close on January 9 but all numbers had been booked by January 8, according to notices displayed on the doors of the branch offices.
[edit] Branch information Locality | Address | Avissawella | No.05, Colombo Road, Avissawella. | Borella | No.1189, Maradana Road, Borella. | Chilaw | No.02, Colombo Road, Chilaw. | Colombo-03 | A5, Super Market Building, Colombo-03. | Colombo-11 | No.212, Main Street, Colombo-11. | Dehiwella | No.8/1, Galle Road, Dehiwella. | Gampaha | No.57, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Gampaha. |
Airtel Lanka Limited is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Limited, the third largest mobile operator in the world, with over 240 million mobile customers as of December 2011.[3] 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 good coverage,except National Parks and Forests and holds 2.5 million subscribers as of September 2011.at the moment,there is no Coverage map available.[4]
[edit] Pre launch
Before launching services officially, Airtel opened up their branch offices island wide and allowed customers to book their number beforehand. Forms were given at all branch offices and customers were given an option of choosing five numbers, out of which one number was given based on availability. This booking system started on January 5 and was expected to close on January 9 but all numbers had been booked by January 8, according to notices displayed on the doors of the branch offices.
[edit] Branch information Locality | Address | Avissawella | No.05, Colombo Road, Avissawella. | Borella | No.1189, Maradana Road, Borella. | Chilaw | No.02, Colombo Road, Chilaw. | Colombo-03 | A5, Super Market Building, Colombo-03. | Colombo-11 | No.212, Main Street, Colombo-11. | Dehiwella | No.8/1, Galle Road, Dehiwella. | Gampaha | No.57, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Gampaha. |