Sri Lankan Mobile Telephony Market Heats Up Again – Cheapest Prepaid Package From Mobitel

The highly aggressive Sri Lankan mobile market has shaken once again with the introduction of a new tariff plan by Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel. India’s Airtel started operation in Sri Lanka from the January this year and almost all the existing operators started slashing mobile charges aggressively. However Airtel came up with a “Very Simple Plan” of Rs 2/min outgoing to any network with incoming totally free without a daily rental.  

With the new Mobitel SMART tariff plan outgoing local calls will be Rs 2.50 and incoming is totally free without any conditions. If the customer is using Mobitel network for more than a year 10% of a discount will be offered and if the time he spent on the network is more than 2 years a discount of 20% will be offered. Therefore a customer who has been using Mobitel for 2 years can expect outgoing calls to any network at Rs 2.00 per minute.

At present Dialog has the largest market share which is they are loosing rapidly and Mobitel , Tigo and Hutch shares the rest more or less. Dialog has been able to minimize the number of customers who are abandoning the network with the introduction of Dialog Blaster package. But most popular Upahara post paid package from Mobitel is still on top and still manages to grab customers in thousands. Probably we can expect some kind of a tariff revision for Upahara also in the near future. 

Mobitel Smart New Tariff Details 

VAS	1st Year	After  1st Year	After  2nd Year
SMS to M Best Friend Mobitel Number **	50 cents
SMS to Mobitel Numbers	75 Cents	68 Cents	60 Cents
SMS to any other Local Number	Rs. 1	90 cents	80 Cents
SMS to Overseas Numbers per message	Rs. 5
MMS to Mobitel Numbers	Rs. 2	Rs. 1.80	Rs. 1.60
MMS to Email or any other Local Number	Rs. 5	Rs. 4.50	Rs. 4
MMS to Overseas Numbers	Rs. 10
GPRS  (Uplink and Downlink Speeds upto 1Mbps)	1 cent per kB

Dial  #111# to activate new Mobitel Smart package.