Rapid expansion takes Lanka Bell network to 60

CDMA market leader Lanka Bell has added seven new business offices to its island-wide network in the months of November and December, extending its services to some of the most remote areas of the country.

The new business offices are located in rural towns such as Padaviya, Horowapatana, Kantale, Siyambalanduwa and Melsiripura as well as in two provincial towns, Gampaha and Bandarawela.

The business office at Melsiripura between Kurunegala and Dambulla is the company’s 60th outlet.

Commenting on the opening of these new business offices, Lanka Bell Managing Director Suren Goonewardene said: “The opening of these new outlets demonstrates our commitment to extend our services to all parts of the island as the country’s only 100 per cent Sri Lankan owned telephone company.”

These business offices will provide customers in these areas easy access to Lanka Bell’s services, technical assistance and convenient locations for bill settlement.

Lanka Bell was established in 1997 with an initial investment of US$ 150 million and was the pioneer of CDMA technology in Sri Lanka. The company is now the second largest fixed line telecommunications company in the country, with more than 750,000 lines. In partnership with FLAG Telecom, a subsidiary of India’s Reliance Communications, Lanka Bell has initiated US$ 27 million in an undersea cable project that will result in high speed data, internet access and far superior quality IDD facilities to thousands of customers all over the country. It will enable crystal clear international connectivity around the globe, linking key business markets in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and USA. Scheduled to be commissioned this year, the project will enable Lanka Bell to offer direct global connectivity and a complete end-to-end solution via FLAG Telecom’s FALCON cable system, which is the first terabit private undersea cable system in Sri Lanka.