Sri Lanka Telecom PLC released the Group financial results for the first half of 2016. The Group comprises of the holding company and eight subsidiaries including the mobile service provider, Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd.

The air was abuzz with excitement and anticipation on the morning of the 27^th of July 2016. One could see crowds gathering as far as the eye could see along the street lined with SLT banners, to witness an event that will go down in the history of Sri Lankan sports as the dawning of a new era for competitive cycling in the country.

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has improved its post-paid and pre-paid Wi-Fi services by continuously expanding its hotspots coverage in important locations with Wi-Fi Hotspots broadcasting SSID: ‘SLT broadband’. The company introduced a range of pre-paid options to improve user convenience. Recently, the latest addition of carrier-grade Wi-Fi hotspots to its network went live at the University of Peradeniya.

As Sri Lanka Telecom organizes and hosts Sri Lanka’s first ever platform dedicated to recognizing Digital Excellence - the “SLT Zero One Awards”, the spotlight also falls upon a number of other organizations providing their partnership and support to this worthy endeavor.

Since 800 B.C Sri Lanka has been home to the cultivation of rice, evidence of this lies in the archeological discovery of large irrigation structures dating all the way back to 390 B.C. Throughout the period of the monarchy, Sri Lanka boasted the existence of over 2000 indigenous varieties of rice, thus earning the fitting title, ‘The Granary of the East’.

The consortium that developed the South East Asia, Middle East and Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) submarine cable was awarded the “Project of the Year – Subsea Award” at the Global Carrier Awards on 8 November 2016, in Paris. Sri Lanka Telecom, the country’s leading ICT Solutions Provider is a proud member of this consortium and has played a vital role in the creation of this submarine cable.

Sri Lanka Telecom together with SLASSCOM recently presented one of the globally emerging topic of Cloud based “Microservices Architecture” through a knowledge sharing program themed, “TechTalk”. The program was successfully held at the Trace Expert City, Maradana with the participation of large number of software/application developers and coding experts in Sri Lanka.

As Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) was aiming towards instigating the construction of a new state-of-the-art Internet Data Center that would enhance the provision of a secure and reliable data hosting facility to Sri Lanka, the Uptime Institute had recently awarded SLT with the design certification required to carry through the initiative. Having received the go-ahead from global data centre regulating body, SLT is set to construct a large scale state of the art and energy efficient Data Center with world renowned Uptime Tier 3 Certification.

Rice has been cultivated in Sri Lanka for almost 3000 years and to this day remains a fundamental food in many of our cultural cuisines. Rice in Sri Lanka has played a prominent role in our country’s history, economy, agriculture and most importantly our health and survival for centuries.