Sri Lanka Telecom PLC

Sri Lanka Telecom PLC is one of Sri Lanka’s most valuable blue chip companies with an annual turnover in excess of Rs.56 billion. Sri Lanka Telecom is the nation’s number one integrated communications service provider and the leading broadband and backbone infrastructure services provider in the country.

Listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange, the Company’s market capitalisation as at 31 December 2012 topped Rs.80 billion. The two main shareholders of Sri Lanka Telecom as at year end were the Government of Sri Lanka which held 49.5% through the Secretary to the Treasury and Global Telecommunication Holdings N.V. of Netherlands, which owned a 44.98% stake.

The balance shares are publicly traded. SLT provides facilities and services in the areas of voice, data, video and mobile to its customers. These services, which are unmatched in scope, range from domestic and international voice, advance data transmission services which include internet services on leased lines, broadband data circuits, to IP services such as IPVPN based on IP-MPLS technology, total corporate solutions, satellite uplink services, IP transit, IPVPN, IPLC and international voice traffic transit services to global telecom operators and corporates, NGN services, wholesale services and mobile telephony, mobile broadband and mobile enterprise solutions through its fully owned subsidiary Mobitel.