Etisalat Sri Lanka picks Alcatel-Lucent for 4G / LTE

Telecom Lead @ Mobile World Congress 2013: Etisalat Sri Lanka has selected Alcatel-Lucent for 4G / LTE network.

Etisalat Sri Lanka will implement Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio solution to deliver 4G LTE-FDD services to Etisalat’s subscribers.

Etisalat — with its dual carrier HSPA+ strategy, recently surpassed 4 million subscribers.

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Dumindra Ratnayaka, CEO at Etisalat Lanka, said: “Etisalat Sri Lanka being in the forefront of the high-speed mobile broadband market, launched DC-HSPA+ technology last August.”

Roughly 95 percent of the population in Sri Lanka currently has a wireless device.

Etisalat Sri Lanka was the first telecommunication company in Sri Lanka to adopt Enterprise Virtualization during 2009, Storage consolidation  in  2010 and mobile worker concept using unified communication technology which helps employees to work from anywhere, anytime using any device. Etisalat also focus towards Cloud infrastructure together with Mobility and Green IT.

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