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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hemalsilva" data-source="post: 527825" data-attributes="member: 7335"> Sri Lanka's 5th Mobile Operator ( Bharti Airtel )<img src="http://www.nordicwirelesswatch.com/newspics/India_Bharti_Airtel_webkuva.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />India's top mobile operator Bharti Airtel has forayed into Sri Lanka byinking an agreement with the island nation's main foreign investmentpromotion body to invest 150 million dollars in rolling out operations, acompany official said. Bharti, which will become the fifth mobile phone operator here, iscurrently scouting for locations to set up base stations and talking toequipment vendors to rollout its network here."If things go as planned, we are hoping to launch our services by the end ofthis calendar year," Bharti's Director, Legal and Regulatory Affairs,Narendra Gupta told reporters here.Airtel had recently got the permission from Sri Lankan Telecom RegulatoryCommission to start 2G and 3G services.It bagged the license competing against Reliance Communications and MaxisTelecom.The Sri Lankan operation would be the first international foray for theIndian company, with the Bharti hoping to use it as a base to expand intothe South Asian region."Sri Lanka is a very promising market for telecom services, with lower phonepenetration at 20 per cent," Gupta said.The telecommunications field is one of the fastest growing sectors in SriLanka, with the number of mobile phone subscribers rising to 4.5 million bythe end of 2006, according to the island country's Central Bank.The market is dominated by Telekom Malaysia's Dialog Telekom with over3.3million subscribers on its network, distantly followed by Mobitel,TigoLanka and Hutchison (Hutch).<a href="http://www.bhartiairtel.in/index.php?id=1" target="_blank">http://www.bhartiairtel.in/index.php?id=1</a></blockquote>

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