Mobitel (Sri Lanka)

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Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel
Type Limited
Founded 1993
Headquarters Sri Lanka
Industry Mobile telecommunication services
Products Mobile Network Operator
Website www.mobitel.lk

Mobitel (Pvt.) Ltd. is a mobile phone network in Sri Lanka. It is wholly owned by Sri Lanka Telecom. The network offers a variety of services and currently operates a GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA network. The operator launches 3.5G services. Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel is 1st 3.5 G operator in Sri lanka & South Asia. Mobitel is currently Operate 3.5G HSDPA network. It Cover most of the Cities and Main roads in Sri Lanka. Mobitel offers both prepaid and post paid services and is one with the lowest call charges.

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[edit] About Mobitel

Mobitel is Sri Lanka's most dynamic mobile telephony operator as well as one of the longest running. Since being acquired by SLT in 2002, it has grown in leaps and bounds and is now on par technologically with the very latest in the Sri Lankan telecommunications industry.

With a strategy of 'value innovation', the Mobitel customer always wins. We believe that technology for its own sake is meaningless, and foster an organizational culture that focuses on Customer Centricity. This philosophy which is a way of life at Mobitel has enabled us to build long lasting relationships with our Customers, The 100% customer growth between 2005 and 2006 speaks for itself. The features and benefits built into the Innovative packages that we offer are all designed carefully with our customer's best interest at heart, because "We Care Always". This has enabled us to achieve phenomenal results.

Mobitel is now in a unique position as the 'National' mobile service provider and has positioned itself to be in the vanguard of the mobile telephony sector. From here, we will continue to offer even more value to the most important person on our horizon: our customer.

http://www.mobitel.lk/m3/about/whymobitel.html/ www.mobitel.lk

[edit] History

Mobitel was incorporated in 1993 as the second mobile-telephony provider to enter the Sri Lanka market. Originally a collaboration between Sri Lanka Telecom and Telstra Australia, 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 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 state-of-the-art technology to provide 3G and GSM totals over US$ 200 million. This includes increasing the present number of base stations from 600 to 1,500 by the end of this year.

[edit] Network

Mobitel operates a 3.5G network with HSDPA support and downlink speeds of up to 14.4 Mbit/s. Currently it has the fastest internet speeds in South Asia.

[edit] Tariffs and packages

Mobitel offers SMART prepaid and Double M post paid packages.

www.mobitel.lk

[edit] Value Added Services

Mobitel offers a variety of value added services including WAP,GPRS,Multimedia Messaging, Closed User Group services, M3 3.5G services (Video calls,Video message,HSDPA,High speed uplink up to 1.98 Mbit/s,dowlink up to 14.4 Mbit/s)and a variety of menu based services(OTA) which are updated to the SIM card.

[edit] Slogan

The company slogan is "We Care Always"

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