Call Sri Lanka mobile phone by dialing 0094 or +94 followed by the mobile phone number without zero of the mobile phone number. For example 0094 777123456. To call a Srilanka land line or CDMA phone dial 0094 or +94 first then dial the city code followed by the subscribers' phone number (CDMA Had lost its popularity here). This simple dialing process will apply to the softphone calls too. To make a foreign call from here, first dial 00 followed by country’s IDD code, city code and the phone number. Calling within same carrier is cheaper while calling another carrier is little expensive within the country. Visiting Business men and Tourists can buy Sri Lanka tourist SIM packages at the Colombo Airport by providing their Passport..Their Smartphone should be unlocked from their home country carrier or they should get / Buy another unlocked Smartphone.
Learn to send your current location through Smartphone in Sri Lanka as lot of people ask for your location.
As a visiting person from overseas, send your flight details to Sri Lanka friend as he can track your flight through his Smartphone.
Rapidly increasing fuel price and cost of living in Sri Lanka makes the loacl people to depend on their phones to do business and purchasing rather than traveling to the place.
Already Rs 880/- packages make them to have enough callin minutes to any Network and Mobile Dta plan to surf and to make calls to their friends.
Currently most of the people in Sri Lanka had gone towards "Blaster" packages as they are cheaper to use. They give free calls within the Network, 1,000 SMS, and Mobile Data Plan for the user to connect to the Internet. The Mobile Data Plan is divided in to Two as day time usage and Night time usage. Foreigners who are in Sri Lanka can go with their tourist local mobile phone plan.Once it is over they can go for any of the Blaster Bundle plan to save money on their call plans. Simply reload or top the account with desired plan price.
Dialog - Triple Blaster Bundle Rs.469/-
Airtel.lk - Unlimited Plan Bundle Rs 749/-
Hutch - Super unlimited Calls Bundle Rs 456/-
Mobitel Blaster Bundle. MPower Rs 420/-
Lot of people go for Rs 889/- package as it gives them facility to call all the networks and give them nearly full unlimited Data to access the internet.
Sri Lanka IDD Number: 0094 / +94
SLT Hotline: 1212
Dialog Hotline: 1777
Mobitel Hotline: 141 or 1717
Hutch Hotline: 1788
Airtel Hotline: 555
How to call a Sri Lanka mobile phone?
Providers: Dialog, Mobitel, Airtel and Hutch
Available Networks: 2G, 3G, 4G LTE and 5G. (3G is the one widely available.)
Video calls available through 3G and above Networks.
Time to make Business Calls: 10:00 AM to 16:00 PM (GMT 04:30 AM to 10:30 AM)
Discounted calls from Sri Lanka: On Sundays, Holidays and Poya days. (Also off peak hours)
International IDD phone code: Sri Lanka +94 or 0094.
Around 32,049,932 mobile phones (including Smartphones) are being used in Sri lanka. Its population is just 20 Million. There are nearly 1,451,982 registered internet users in Sri Lanka. They can dial and/or receive voice calls through Data plan or Wi-Fi of their Smartphones, internet connected PC and Laptops. In addition there are 2,509,331 Land phone are being connected through wires.
SLT | Rs 2.80 |
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Dialog | Rs 1.50 |
Mobitel | Rs 1.50 |
LankaBell | Rs 2.00 |
Hutch | Rs 1.50 |
Airtel | Rs 1.50 |
Take note that the Airtel.lk and Dialog.lk had merged in to one company in Sri lanka.
What is VPN?
VPN means “virtual private network”. Those using Wi-Fi and use to transmit sensitive information or accessing entertainment can use it safely through a VPN.
How to Connect through VPN in Samsung Smartphone?
Open Settings > Connections >VPN > Add VPN profile.
Why use VPN? Read here.
Pre-Paid Mobile Phone Accounts in Sri Lanka.
Carrier | Balance Check | Data Check | Ownership | To Top-up |
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Airtel | *550# | *550# | #132# | *567#PIN# |
Hutch | *344# | *344# | #132# | *355*PIN# |
Mobitel | *100# | #170# | #132# | *102*PIN# |
Dialog | *#456# | #456# | #132# | #123#PIN# |
Public holidays, Sundays and Poya days are the best time to make low priced calls to any part of the world from Sri Lanka through out the day and night.
International country code of Sri Lanka is +94 or 0094.