Dialog Telekom Ltd, Sri Lanka's largest mobile operator, said on November 22 that it expects to increase its subscriber base to 3.1 million by the end of 2006.
The firm - a unit of dominant fixed-line provider Telekom Malaysia and the most valuable stock on the Sri Lanka bourse - holds over 60 percent of the island's mobile market, with about 3 million users as of mid November, Chief Executive Hans Wijayasuriya told Reuters in an interview.