Sri Lanka Telecom, the country’s number one integrated telecommunication services provider has entered into an agreement with Ceylinco Life to provide a total communications solution comprising of video, voice and mission critical data services seamlessly connecting 142 Ceylinco Life branches.

The solution is powered by SLT’s state of the art optical fiber based MetroEthernet technology delivered over their failsafe optical fiber backbone, it reaches out to every corner of the country taking Ceylinco Life ever closer to their customers. This project is another landmark achievement for the national telecommunications provider, bringing distinction to the role it plays as the protagonist of connecting businesses to the masses.

Commenting on this agreement, Mr. R Renganathan, Chief Executive Director, Ceylinco Life said: “We expect to see a paradigm step up in service levels to policy holders as well as prospective customers. The possibilities for the future are even more exciting. SLT’s solution will enhance our business capabilities and processors via SLT’s state-of-the-art technology. With world class communications at hand, this will definitely help us to open new avenues for the further diversification of our business.”

Mr. Shoji Takahashi, CEO of SLT said: “We are glad to provide a total data and voice communication solution to Ceylinco Life. Being the premier telecom service provider, we always provide our key business customers with tomorrow’s technology. I am confident that our communications solutions will give Ceylinco Life, a competitive edge over its competitors through our managed, secure, cost-effective and intelligent IP network. Our reliable communication network will also enable Ceylinco Life to serve their customers better.”

At SLT every solution is engineered to perfection through the wealth of skills and experience gained over a long period of successfully implementing and managing similar solutions for numerous organizations in the state and private sector. SLT’s broad solutions portfolio also includes data-centre and disaster-recovery facilities that ensure business continuity for large enterprises like Ceylinco Life, providing them unmatched reliability, scalability and quality of service.

Sri Lanka Telecom (www.slt.lk) is one of the country’s most valuable blue chip companies with an annual turnover in excess of Rs 40 billion. Whilst NTT Communications Corporation of Japan owns a 35.2% stake in Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), 49.2% is owned by the Government of Sri Lanka and 15.3% is listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. The company was also awarded an AAA (sri) rating by Fitch Ratings Lanka followed by a BB- international rating by Fitch International and Standard & Poor’s.
SLT Group has a customer base of over two million including multinational corporations, large and small corporate, retail and domestic customers.

Today with NTT Communications of Japan as a strategic partner, SLT provides facilities and services: voice, data, video and mobile to its customers, which are unmatched in scope. These services range from domestic and international voice, advance data transmission services which include internet services on leased lines, broadband [on ADSL] and dial up, data circuits, frame relay solutions to IP services such as IP-VPN based on IP-MPLS technology, total corporate solutions of multiple services, satellite uplink services and mobile telephony through the fully owned subsidiary Mobitel.

With a view to making Sri Lanka a broadband island, SLT is in the process of introducing the necessary infrastructure in the form of NGN [Next Generation Networks] using optical fibre backbone and broadband services such as IMS, IPTV etc. SLT also provides high speed global connectivity to countries in the South Asian region through its investments in international submarine cables such as SMW3, SMW4 and the Bharat Lanka submarine cable [between India and Sri Lanka] and Dhirragu-SLT submarine cable system between Maldives Islands and Sri Lanka. Newly incorporate SLT Hong Kong Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Sri Lanka Telecom, fully geared to provide services such as IP transit, IPVPN, IPLC and International voice traffic transit services to global telecom operators and corporates in Hong Kong.