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Excellent domestic service in urban and semi urban areas. Inadequate service in rural and remote areas (2010), good international service (2010). The latest trend is the Fixed 4G LTE and 5G technologies, because of this technology many Sri Lankans who live in rural and remote areas can now access a good telephone and broadband internet service.
According to the International Monetary Fund, Sri Lanka's GDP in terms of purchasing power parity is second only to the Maldives in the South Asian region in terms of per capita income. As of 2010 [update] , the service sector makes up 60% of GDP, the industrial sector 28%, and the agriculture sector 12%. [ 1 ]
Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා ටෙලිකොම්, romanized: Śrī Laṃkā Ṭelikom, Tamil: ஸ்ரீலங்கா டெலிகொம்), doing business as SLT-MOBITEL, is the national telecommunications services provider in Sri Lanka and one of the country's largest companies [3] with an annual turnover in excess of Rs 40 billion.
This article lists the largest companies in Sri Lanka terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes and local business magazine LMD. [1] [2]
Sri Lanka Industrial Development Co. Ltd; Sri Lanka Institute of Co-operative Management; Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Ltd; Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration; Sri Lanka Insurance & Robinson Hotel Company Ltd; Sri Lanka-Libya Agricultural & Livestock Development Co. Ltd; Sri Lanka State Trading Corporation; Sri Lanka Sugar Co. Ltd
Dialog Axiata is an investor under the aegis of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka and has invested over US $ 3 billion towards the development of telecommunications infrastructure, thus becoming the single largest contributor to Sri Lankan foreign direct investment (FDI) to date. [11]
Polling divisions in Sri Lanka are subdivisions of the country's electoral districts. From the 1st parliamentary election in 1947 to the 8th in 1977, members were elected to the parliament using a first-past-the-post system from these polling divisions. This system changed in 1978. [1]