airtel Lakshapathiya winners announced

• 8 winners receive Rs 100,000 each in cash, awarded by Kumar Sangakkara

• Over 150,000 contestants participants a grand promo  spanning 2 months

• Further reiterates the growing popularity of airtel Welcome Tunes 

Emerging victorious from over 150,000 participants, 8 lucky contestants walked away with Rs 100,000/- each, winning the airtel Lakshapathiya competition. Winning contestants were chosen from among airtel customers who had downloaded the most number of Welcome Tunes by dialing into 7551 on their airtel mobile within a 2 month promotion period that ended in December last year.

Sri Lanka Cricket Captain Kumar Sangakkara graced the event held recently at the airtel brand shop in Colombo, to personally handover prizes to the lucky winners.

Vidur Rattan, Head of Sales & Marketing, Bharti airtel Lanka said, “airtel Welcome Tunes has fast emerged as one of our most popular services offered to customers throughout Sri Lanka. Its popularity stems from its simplicity of accessibility, its multi faceted menu and dynamic range of content that is continuously refreshed. Coupled together with an enticing array of packages offered based on individual customer needs to prevent unexpected bill shock, airtel Welcome Tunes has, in less than 2 years, emerged as one of the most vibrant services offered over the mobile in recent times”.

airtel Welcome Tunes is available to customers across Sri Lanka in English, Sinhala, Tamil and Hindi languages. Currently, it is enjoyed by the majority of airtel’s customers and is fast attracting more to the service, owing to its rich and relevant content.

About Bharti airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd: Bharti airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd commenced commercial operations of services in Sri Lanka on January 12, 2009, and is the only mobile operator to reach the 1 million customers mark in Sri Lanka in 171 days. With its network footprint panned out across the country in less than 2 years from launch, airtel has emerged as Sri Lanka’s fastest expanding network. Granted a license in 2007, in accordance with the Sri Lanka Telecommunications Act No. 25 of 1991, it is also a registered company under the Board of Investment in Sri Lanka. Under the license, the company provides digital mobile services to Sri Lanka inclusive of voice telephony, voice mail, data services and GSM based services. All of these services are provided under the airtel brand.

About Bharti airtel Limited: Bharti airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa.  The company offers mobile voice & data services, fixed line, high speed broadband, IPTV, DTH, turnkey telecom solutions for enterprises and national & international long distance services to carriers. Bharti airtel has been ranked among the six best performing technology companies in the world by BusinessWeek.  Bharti airtel had over 205 million customers across its operations at the end of December 2010. To know more visit www.airtel.in