Airtel Sri Lanka
Airtel (, ) is the brand name of mobile network operator, Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, the Sri Lankan subsidiary of Indian multinational telecommunications company Bharti Airtel. The company was awarded a mobile phone operator license in 2006 and was scheduled to start operations in early 2007, however the company didn't commence services until 12 January 2009. Airtel was reported to hav over 2.9 million active subscribers . History. Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Limited, the Second largest mobile operator in the world, with over 480 million mobile customers as of September 2020 . Bharti Airtel has been featured in Forbes Asia's Fab 50 list, rated amongst the best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007, and voted as India's most innovative company in a survey by "The Wall Street Journal". Airtel Sri Lanka commenced commercial operations of services on 13 January 2009. Granted a license in 2007 in accordance with the Sri Lanka Telecommunications Act No. 25 of 1991, it is also a registered company under the Board of Investment Sri Lanka. Under the license, the company provides digital mobile services to Sri Lanka. This is  inclusive of voice telephony, voice mail, data services and GSM based services. All of these services are provided under the airtel brand. Airtel received the 2nd Place award in the 16th National Business Excellence Awards (NBEA) in 2019. Airtel Sri Lanka has 3G island wide coverage. On November Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) approved airtel high speed 4G 850 MHz band operate for indoor coverage. Network implementation. Airtel currently uses GSM / UMTS/HSPA+ and Launched 4G LTE and VoLTE (testing) Airtel DC-HSPA+, 4G LTE broadband and coverage. Airtel have 1600+ 2G  base stations on operation island-wide and 650+ 3G base stations with dual carrier HSPA+ technology. Airtel invested $20 million in 2014 to improve their island-wide 3G Coverage. Airtel 4G will operate in the efficient 850 Mhz band & 2100Mhz Band, 2500 MHz band in densed areas, which has higher signal propagation. This will translate into a superior 4G network experience for customers with wider network availability and, most importantly, better indoor coverage.