Legal Issues
Airtel Sri Lanka received many legal threats from other operators as Airtel started to offer cheaper call rates. This led the industry to a price war and all operators including Airtel itself had posted a significant loss in the year of 2009.
On July 15, 2010, TRC (Telecommunication Regulation Commission) implemented a floor price to all the operators to overcome the price war. All the operators increased their call charges except Airtel which filed Fundamental Rights Petition in Supreme Court on July 19, 2010 saying that this new floor price is unfair to the newcomer to the industry. But, this petition got rejected by the Supreme court.
So, Airtel revised their tariff on August 3, 2010 for new customers, as previously they offered 49 cents/min within the network now it's Rs. 1/min and no changes to other network call as they offered Rs. 2/min earlier also.
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