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Airtel Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan subsidiary of Airtel, providing telecommunications services

Airtel (Sinhala: එයාටෙල්, romanized: Eyāṭel, Tamil: எயார்டெல்) was the brand name of former mobile network operator, Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. It was started as 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, with approximately 3 million subscribers of the Sri Lankan mobile market as of June 2024.2 It is headquartered in Colombo.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • Industrymobile phone industry, telecommunications industry1
  • HeadquartersColombo1
  • Websitewww.airtel.lk

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Airtel (Sinhala: එයාටෙල්, romanized: Eyāṭel, Tamil: எயார்டெல்) was the brand name of former mobile network operator, Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. It was started as the Sri Lankan subsidiary of Indian multinational telecommunications company Bharti Airtel.2

Corporate structure

Airtel Sri Lanka is part of a group headed by Bharti Airtel. 29 entities, 20 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Bharti Airtel Gurgaon, India
    • Airtel Sri Lanka Colombo
    • Airtel Africa Subsidiary · Amsterdam
      • Airtel Congo B Subsidiary
      • Airtel DRC Subsidiary · Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
      • Airtel Nigeria Subsidiary
      • Airtel Tanzania Subsidiary · Dar es Salaam
      • Airtel Uganda Subsidiary · Kampala, Uganda
      • Airtel Burkina Faso Subsidiary · Burkina Faso
      • Airtel Gabon Subsidiary · Gabon
      • Airtel Ghana Subsidiary · Ghana
      • Airtel Kenya Subsidiary · Kenya
      • Airtel Madagascar Subsidiary · Madagascar
      • Airtel Malawi Subsidiary · Malawi
      • Airtel Niger Subsidiary · Niger
      • Airtel Rwanda Subsidiary · Rwanda
      • Airtel Seychelles Subsidiary · Seychelles
      • Airtel Sierra Leone Subsidiary · Sierra Leone
      • Airtel Zambia Subsidiary · Zambia
      • m’y Airtel Chad Subsidiary · Chad
    • Airtel India Subsidiary · New Delhi
    • Airtel-Vodafone Subsidiary
    • Cirkle (formerly Airtel Bangladesh) Subsidiary · Dhaka
    • Indus Towers Subsidiary · Gurugram, India
    • BHARTI AIRTEL SERVICES LIMITED Subsidiary · 100% · New Delhi, India
    • BHARTI HEXACOM LIMITED Subsidiary · Gurgaon, India
    • BHARTI TELEMEDIA LIMITED Subsidiary · Haryana, India
    • INDO TELEPORTS LIMITED Subsidiary · New Delhi, India
    • XTELIFY LIMITED Subsidiary · Gurgaon, India

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Airtel Sri Lanka, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

  • mobile telephony

Listed on Wikidata.1

Network data

MNC: 413 05

Operator code: 075

Network implementation

Airtel currently uses 2G/ 4G LTE and VoLTE.

and currently under testing 5G Capabilities.

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The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) had granted its permission to Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd (Airtel) to shut down their 3G mobile network by June 24, 2022

From Wikipedia’s article on Airtel Sri Lanka, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Sources

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