Emerging Asian Telecom Giant, Bharti Airtel Ltd has received permission from the Sri Lankan Telecom Regulatory Commission to provide 2G and 3G cellular services in Sri Lanka. Airtel was directly competing with Reliance Communications and Maxis Telecom to become the 5th GSM operator in Sri Lanka. In Sept-2006, Airtel bagged cellular license to provide services in the Channel Island nation of Gurnsey.
Sunil Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel, said
We are delighted to have received the offer to provide mobile services in Sri Lanka.Today the South Asian region offers tremendous growth opportunities and Sri Lanka is a very promising market for telecom services.
In another development, RCom controlled Flag Telecom and Tata controlled VSNL are in race to wire African countries.
Tags: Mobile, 3G, Sri Lanka Telecom , Asian Telecom, Emerging Market
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