Dialog Axiata Plc, Sri Lanka

1. Executive Summary

Dialog Axiata PLC (Dialog) is the leading Mobile Telecommunications network operator in Sri Lanka. The Group provides communication services in the segments of Mobile, Fixed, Broadband and Internal Gateway Services. The companies under the Group are also involved in providing Telecommunication Infrastructure services such as Tower Infrastructure and Transmission Services, media such as Satellite, Cable and Terrestrial, Digital Services and Digital Commerce such as Mobile and eCommerce, electronic payments like Mobile Payment, digital health, education, navigation and enterprise services and business process outsourcing services.

Dialog has been at the forefront of innovation in the mobile industry in Sri Lanka since late 90s propelling the nation’s mobile telephone infrastructure to a standard on par with the developed world. The Company conveys propelled rapid mobility portable broadband services to a supporter base of 11.8 Million Sri Lankans, by means of 2.5G and 3G/3.5G and 4G networks. In April 2013 Dialog became the first service provider in South Asia to commence commercial operations of mobile 4G-LTE services. The Company also provides a range of International Roaming Services across a global footprint, comprising more than 200 countries and operates a wider range of, international telecommunication services including retail and wholesale international voice and data services and much more.

Dialog Axiata supplements media transmission driving position in the Mobile Telecommunications part with organization presence also in the Fixed Telecommunication and Digital Pay Television showcases in a solid and in fact propel (technically) impression in the here to link worked cable operated Telecommunication services existed in the country at the current moment. The completely owned subsidiaries in the organization build for the reason are Dialog Broadband Networks (private) Limited (DBN), Dialog Television (private) Limited (DTV) and Digital Holdings Lanka (Private Limited. DBN is Sri Lanka’s second largest Fixed Telecommunication service provider, serving residential and enterprise customers with voice, broadband, lease lines and customized telecommunication services and also a leading provider of Radio and Optical Fiber based transmission infrastructure facilities. DTV operates a Direct-to-Home (DTH) Digital Satellite Pay TV service and is the market leader in Sri Lanka’s Pay TV sector, while supporting a broad array of international and local content in both Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) formats together with a wide array of Sri Lankan television channels and delivers high quality entertainment to a viewer base of 838,000 Sri Lankan households.

Dialog through its fully owned subsidiaries provides such comprehensive network of inter connected Services and Businesses, cross selling each Services and finally helping the bottom line of the Group. The Company also remitted LKR 10.7 Billion to the Government of Sri Lanka as direct income tax, fees and levies. Company also collected a further LKR 21.0 Billion as indirect taxes on behalf of the government. Thus, Dialog Axiata being one of the largest corporate contributors to the Sri Lanka’s economy remitting a total of LKR 31.7 Billion as direct and indirect taxes during 2016, an increase of 15% compared with 2015.