Airtel Launched in Sri Lanka

India’s top mobile operator Airtel entered Sri Lankan market with it’s launch on this Monday. Bharathi Airtel became the 5^th operator to enter Sri Lanka which has  a high competition among the existing mobile operators.

Airtel Sri Lanka has offering outgoing calles to any network at Rs 2.00 and incoming totally free. One other interesting fact is they don’t have any peak/offpeak times which makes their plans very simple. Airtel is already offering both pre paid/post paid as well as data packages.

It is expected that the existing players who are Mobitel, Dialog, Tigo and Hutch will response to the newcomer with attractive tariff packages.

You can find official tariff plans here:

Prepaid : http://www.airtel.lk/AirtelSL/tariffs_pdf/prepaid.pdf

Postpaid:http://www.airtel.lk/AirtelSL/tariffs_pdf/postpaid.pdf

Date for Airtel Launch In Sri Lanka Confirmed

The long awaited 5^th mobile operator, AirTel will start operations from the 12^th of January. They have already started their advertising campaigns with longer television advertisements and full page newspaper advertisements. Meanwhile AirTel has given the facility to pre-register for their network and suggest a mobile number that they wish to obtain.

Full list of Airtel dealers are given below.

Airtel Ready To Launch in Sri Lanka!!!

May be the mostly awaited mobile network Airtel, is about to strart it's operations in Sri Lanka very soon. The launch has been postponing several times since last year by the company. The network prefix will be 075 and the network id is SRI-05. If you do a GSM network search most probably you will be able to see that Airtel network is up and running. In the mean time Airtel has set up some outlets also around the city but still the naming boards are covered.

It is expected that Airtel will offer attractive packages which will make other operators also to slash prices more. Meanwhile existing operators have already taken some measures to strengthen their respective customer base by slash prices and introducing new packages. As the Dialog, the market leader is gradually loosing the market share, Mobitel has aggressively attracted millions of new customers within a short period of time. As a results Mobitel network is being oversubscribed and very often gets busy. In order to keep the customer base steady Mobitel will be required to do a rapid network expansion.