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The Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has successfully completed the major phase of infrastructure development in 2000. The SLT has invested a massive sum of Rs. 44 billion in the years 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 to build the Telecom infrastructure in Sri Lanka. The new international telecommunication gateway exchange, and an undersea cable project, connects Sri Lanka with the rest of the world by sea cable and facilitates high bandwidth transmission. This is especially valuable for data transmission. In addition it operates three Satellite Earth Stations. In total SLT has more than 3000 international circuits. The 700 kilometres fibre optic ring encompassing four key provinces linking 15 major cities and towns will facilitate high quality voice. By the end of this year, four more fibre optic rings will be installed in and around Colombo. Today Sri Lanka Telecom also has a completely digital network. The provision of Internet facilities was enhanced and SLTnet was launched. From the beginning of the year 2000, with the major infrastructure projects progressing expeditiously, SLT began its phase 2 objectives of improving current services, and creating new services that will use the infrastructure created. The total number of telephone lines has increased from 275,000 in 1997 to 653,000 at the end of 2000. It plans to install another 80,000 telephones in 2001. These telephones cater to all sectors of the community. It is estimated that around 160,000 telephones are outside Urban Towns. About one third of the network caters to low users, whose monthly telephone bills excluding rental are below Rs. 250. The SLT now has a network of more than 400 telephone exchanges installed island wide.
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