SLT provides broadband connection to over 350,000 households

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has connected over 350,000 households and businesses with fixed broadband enabling nearly 1.5 million users to access its network.

"Strengthening its technology leadership in the country's evolving broadband footprint, SLT enables its customers to experience the true potential of broadband, with one of the best service that a telco-operator can offer, on par with any global telecommunication operator," a company spokesman said.

"Optical fibre technology is reliable and better manages emerging bandwidth communication requirements of modern lifestyles," he said.

"Superfast broadband is the speedy means of providing broadband with the least disruption through Fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), Fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) and Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH). FTTC and FTTB delivers fibre close enough to the point of use. As such the length of the final copper connection does not seriously limit the bandwidth," the spokesman said.

The company has designed broadband packages to suit the needs of customers. Broadband packages with higher data volumes and higher speeds allow users to select download speeds ranging from 2 Mbps up to 16 Mbps. Volume based packages were introduced to improve users' internet experience with data volumes starting from 2GB up to 300GB per month.

"The company is adept at gauging and adopting telecom developments around the world and has been quick to respond to the social media revolution and the growing demand created by Smartphones and Tabs for wi-fi access," he said.

"Vast economic benefits can be realised through reliable telecommunication infrastructure capable of catering to the immediate and long term information technology needs of a developing nation that seeks to tap into global ICT markets," the spokesman said.