Visiting Sri Lanka.

Visiting to Sri Lanka? You can bring your own mobile phone with you when you are visiting Sri Lanka. If you want to bring any land line phones with you, then you must get necessary permission from the authorities.

If you are bringing your own mobile phone make sure that your mobile phone had the GSM 900 MHz bandwidth as this is the popular one in operation in Sri Lanka. If your mobile phone is a tri or quad band then you don't have to worry about the bandwidth problem in Sri Lanka. If your phone is switched on it will automatically find a partner carrier of your own carrier. You must know international roaming is a good thing to keep in touch with your loved ones and business partners who are in your contact list. But it is a costly one particularly if you have set your internet service to check for your mails. The mobile phone will automatically login to your account without your knowledge and check for emails as you used it in your own country. But while on roaming it is a costly one. Once you reach your home and check your phone bill it will show you a bigger bill.

So once you arrive in Sri Lanka you can get free SIM card at the Colombo International air port. To get this prepaid SIM card all you have to do is to provide your passport photocopy. The SIM card will come with a calling value for Rs 100. All the mobile phone carriers in Sri Lanka provide totally free incoming calls. So get note of the phone number and send it to your people through the SMS text service which is very cheap in Sri Lanka.

Due to mobile phone carrier tariff war local calls went down to 0.25 Srilanka cents per minute. But the Sri Lanka intervened and made a new rule as calls between net works will be Rs 1/- and non net work will be Rs 2/- per minute. Sending one SMS text message will be Rs 1/- and receiving SMS text message is free. The rule came in to effect from 15/07/2010. With taxes the mobile calls may be Rs 2/- for net work and Rs 3/- per minute for non net work calls.

If you like you can get a new SIM connection and can buy a simple mobile phone for US$ 30 or a Smartphone for US$ 1000. Most of the SIM connections are free and need only around US$1.00 reload at the time of the purchase. There are 5 mobile phone operators in Sri Lanka. They are Dialog, Etisalat, Hutch, Mobitel and Airtel.

Sri Lanka offers 3.5G, 3G and 2G facilities are available for the mobile phone users along with WAP and Wi-Fi.hot spots at important points. You can reload your phone any where in Sri Lanka from 0.20 cents to 10$. There are reload cards are available and each corners have mobile phone shops where you can pay any money and write your number in their log within seconds you will receive the SMS text message from the carrier that your phone had been reloaded with so much of amount.

Don't forget it is an offence to use someone else mobile phone connection while you are in Sri Lanka. CDMA phones are portable and can be carried any where but in Sri Lanka it is prohibited to take a CDMA phone with you for to call or receive calls. The CDMA phone connection is meant for to use in a particular house or office address only.

If your phone is equipped with a camera, take care not to take photos or videos in restricted areas and temples. It will give you much trouble. Don't try to unlock your expensive Smartphone in Sri Lanka. Some time it can end up with a Hard Lock. There are facilities available to insure your mobile phone in Sri Lanka at very low price.