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Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata Target 95% Population Coverage by End of 2021

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata Target 95% Population Coverage by End of 2021 Image Credit: Dialog Axiata

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata has launched its 4,000th network tower in Thihawa village, Kurunegala, to further expand coverage to rural communities in the area.

In its continued efforts to expand coverage and support customers during these unprecedented times, Dialog has added 515 new towers to the network during the pandemic period reaching 4000 mobile 4G sites in its network, the highest ever tower count recorded in Sri Lanka. 

Dialog made use of Green Field towers in rapidly expanding its coverage to reach deep rural communities and the Lamp pole solutions to cater to urgent capacity requirements in dense areas. Dialog will continue to enhance coverage to deep rural communities through another 450 towers in the next 6 months, targeting more than 95% population coverage by end of 2021.

 

Dialog’s network accommodated more than 100% growth in mobile data traffic & more than 200% growth in fixed data traffic during the pandemic period, where the network carries more than 60% of the total mobile data usage of Sri Lanka. To meet the surge in demand, Dialog upgraded the capacity of 2,831 mobile 4G towers and 1,816 fixed broadband towers during the pandemic period and are targeting to enhance the capacity of more than 75% of the sites in the network by the end of the year.

Dialog also made more than two fold enhancements to the spectrum assigned to mobile 4G network by investing in 40MHz spectrum in the 2,600MHz band and re-allocating 13 MHz of frequency previously used for 2G and 3G to 4G broadband with the approval of TRCSL. 

Dialog is the nation’s largest foreign direct investor with a total investment of USD 2.8 Billion to date and infrastructure investments of USD 207 Million planned for 2021. The ongoing investments are part of the USD 254.1 million investment committed with the Board of Investments in February 2020.

Supun Weerasinghe, Group Chief Executive of Dialog Axiata
We are grateful to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka, Board of Investment and relevant authorities for facilitating this milestone and rapid expansions to serve our consumers. We are thankful to our customers for their valued patronage and confidence placed on our services.

Pradeep De Almeida, Group Chief Technology Officer of Dialog Axiata
We are investing Rs 50.9 Billion to enhance connectivity across the nation during the pandemic period, in response to the surge in demand for connectivity and to support our customers during these unprecedented times.

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