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Airtel offers lowest call charges

Bharti Airtel has entered into a three-year managed network deal with Huawei, partnered with IBM to manage its comprehensive IT infrastructure and application requir-

An Airtel Store was opened on Galle Road Colombo to supplement its network of 12,000 retail outlets and 23 Airtel Stores across Sri Lanka. Here Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel, Sunil Bharti Mittal with other foreign invitees at the opening.

ements, and selected iSmart Timex as its customer care partner.

The mobile services from Airtel are available with the number prefix 075. The call charges to any newtowrk or from Airtel to Airtel would be Rs. 2 while an SMA to any network would be Re. 1.

The 3.5G services will be available to Airtel customers in Colombo, Kandy and Galle during the first phase of launch.

Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel, Sunil Bharti Mittal, said that they always believed in undertaking business projects that are transformational and have a positive impact on the society at large. "Bharti Airtel has also set global benchmarks in telecom services, be it our unique business model based on outsourcing or innovative products and services. We are confident that with our experience of serving around 88 million customers, we will make a positive impact on the telecom landscape of Sri Lanka," he added.

In just over a year, the company has commissioned a sizeable state-of-the-art network. This is the fastest network rollout of its scale by any mobile operator in Sri Lanka.

Bharti Airtel Limited is one of Asia's leading integrated telecom services provider and has been voted as India's most innovative company, in a survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal.

Ramayanaya attracts Indian tourists

Scene from a dance performance

Sri Lanka Convention Bureau (SLCB) in its strategy to develop tourism events is promoting Ramayana Pilgrim Tours to Sri Lanka.

"We consider this as a great event which is now happening regularly and are fully supportive of the efforts of the Development Authority to develop Asoka Vathika sites in Sri Lanka to attract more and more Ramayanaya groups from India in to Sri Lanka," says General Manager of the Bureau (SLCB) Vipula Wanigasekera. Director General of Sri Lanka Tourism S. Kalaiselvam said that this concept is fast catching up in India with several tourists specially arriving to go on this trail.

SLCB last week also presented a Ramayanaya cultural program to a group of 200 Swamis and devotees who were enthralled by the performance.

The Ramnayanaya episode was presented by Aru Sri Art Theatre and Chandana Wickramasinghe Dance Academy.