SLT Broadband tops over 200,000 connections

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), announced that 200,000 Sri Lankan homes and businesses (including entrepreneurs, small, medium and large organizations) now access broadband services via ADSL 2+ technology on SLT’s islandwide Broadband network.

This achievement represents more than 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s total broadband consumer base and over 20 percent of SLT Megaline (PSTN/wireline) telephone customer base.

The company has succeeded in achieving its target for the year 2010 ahead of time, mainly due to the recently concluded island-wide broadband campaign, “SLT Broadband Twenty20 Promotion”. A total of 80,000 new customers got connected with SLT Broadband services for High-speed internet and IPTV (PeoTV) services during 2010.

SLT expanded its fibre optic information superhighway to the Northern Peninsula in Sri Lanka very recently, as part of its continuing network investment to support the growing demand for communication services, following the end of the conflict.

Quick deployment of the Broadband infrastructure in the Northern Peninsula has provided the company with opportunities to serve the newly opened up markets of the Northern and Eastern provinces.

This fibre optic cable project connects Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Jaffna along the A9 main road.

In addition new telephone exchanges at Mankulam and Mullaithivu, located in the Northern part of Sri Lanka, will enhance basic communication facilities and Broadband coverage for customers in the areas.