SLT hits 200,000 broadband milestone

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Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the nation’s number one integrated telecommunications service provider and the leading broadband services provider in the country is proud to announce that 200,000 Sri Lankan homes and businesses (including entrepreneurs, small, medium large organisations) now access broadband services via ADSL 2+ technology on SLT’s island wide Broadband network.

This achievement represents more than 70% of Sri Lanka’s total broadband consumer base and over 20% 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”.

P.E. D. A. Silva of Pulastigama (situated in Polonnaruwa District), was the 200,000th customer to be connected with SLT Broadband services. The SLT broadband service was activated for him by enabling broadband access through the Entrée package.

This attractive broadband promotional campaign was SLT’s response to the huge demand for ADSL broadband services that has arisen from all parts of the country and is also an attempt by the company to popularise broadband services among all Sri Lankans by providing them access to information and entertainment contents whenever they want. During year 2010, a total of 80,000 new customers got connected with SLT Broadband services for High-speed internet and IPTV (PeoTV) services. Customers have benefited greatly from ADSL broadband due to its ‘always on’ connection, higher speed, reliability and uninterrupted service provided by wireline with benefits of cost savings and affordability. The ability to make and receive calls simultaneously while browsing the internet are among the great values it offers. Furthermore, through SLT Broadband, customers receive access to multiple services of voice, broadband internet and TV/multimedia and all other benefits through a single wireline connection. SLT started offering IPTV through its broadband platform in year 2008 and has succeeded in covering almost all the provinces in the country.

Customers have the freedom and flexibility to choose from a wide selection of broadband plans at affordable prices to meet their individual needs. Services include downstream speeds of up to 4 Mbps for SLT Broadband internet customers. For customers with a wireline home/business telephone, SLT provides a broadband connection starting at Rs. 500 per month without a connection fee.

SLT Broadband services provides high speed internet access (downstream) through seven different packages: Entrée (512Kbps - Volume based), Home (512Kbps - Unlimited), Xcite (1Mbps - Unlimited), Office (2Mbps - Unlimited), Office 1IP (2Mbps – Unlimited, 1Static IP), Xcel (4Mbps - Unlimited) and Xcel 1IP (4Mbps – Unlimited, 1Static IP).