A local media reports that Mobitel, the cellular division of Sri Lankan fixed line incumbent Sri Lanka Telecom will increase its customer base by around 300,000 by the year-end to 2.4 million users, helped by a new package aimed at public sector workers. Mobitel’s CEO Suren Amarasekera said the firm is connecting over 10,000 new users a day following the recent launch of its ‘Upahara’ package targeting civil servants. China’s Huawei Technologies has been contracted for the expansion of the network capacity under Mobitel’s ‘phase four’ plan to increase the cellco’s number of GSM base stations to 2,000 from the current total of around 1,500 therefore lifting up capacity by 650,000 users to a maximum of 2.75 million, as well as expanding coverage to 90% of the population. The company anticipates to start ‘phase five’ of its nationwide network launch as early as January 2009 hoping to raise capacity to 4million from 2.75 million.
Wireless Federation » Mobitel makes a move towards expansion (Sri Lanka)
Mobitel makes a move towards expansion (Sri Lanka)
- September 22nd, 2008
- 5:24 am
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