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| Thursday, 17 October 2002 |
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SLT, Bharti Telesonic to channel overseas traffic By Kushani Ratnayake Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) and Bharti Telesonic, India's emerging telecommunications company, announced the first step of a partnership to channel overseas traffic between the two countries and signed an agreement on October 14. "We are confident with this new partnership with our neighbouring country India, our future will be definitely bright" said the chairman of the SLT, Thilanga Sumathipala at the inauguration of the international link between Sri Lanka Telecom and Bharti Telesonic of India. The link between SLT and Bharti via SEA-ME WE 3 and i2i cable provides direct connectivity from Colombo to Chennai. Bharti Telesonic Limited is the long distances service subsidiary of Bharti Televentures and is India's leading private sector telecommunications service provider. Bharti has been at the forefront of technology and has revolutionised telecommunications with its excellent products and services. The tie-up with Bharti Telesonic gives SLT customers improved accessibility and alternative connectivity between the two countries. "The buzzword in the telecommunications industry today is bandwidth, this agreement with Bharti will not only meet the needs of customers in both countries for higher bandwidth, but also provide the stimulus to drive the Internet and e commerce activities between India and Sri Lanka, and the rest of the Asia Pacific region" the Chief Executive Officer of the SLT Shuhei Anan said. This bandwidth will benefit the software industry, call centres, dotcom companies and Internet Protocol based industries for applications such as web hosting. The added bandwidth will make available an enhanced array of voices, data and business and consumer broadband services between India and Sri Lanka. Bharti in turn will have access to SLT's existing global connectivity both in traffic and bandwidth, thus making this relationship mutually beneficial.
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