Mobitel recognised for excellence in engineering services
View(s):Mobitel was recently honoured with the ‘Engineering – Services’ Award at the prestigious Excellence in Engineering Awards organised by the Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) for best practices in project management designed to operate Mobitel’s sophsticated engineering systems and processes.
The awards which was held this year under the theme of ‘Engineering Excellence through Project Excellence’, commended Mobitel for its project excellence of the Stage VII project, the largest network expansion project which consists of more than 1530 2G/3G/LTE nodes, 700 Transmission nodes and more than 430 infrastructural elements, according to the company as stated in a media release.
“Mobitel has proved yet again that it has the technological expertise, resources and capacity to be one of the leading brands in the country.
Mobitel’s network planning and operations in combination with its project management processes have enabled the company to reach new heights. Mobitel has already gained ample recognition both locally and internationally as a strong telco brand by securing the ISO 27001:2005 certification for Information Security Management and hope to continue breaking boundaries,”
Mobitel Chief Executive Officer Ranjith G. Rubasinghe stated. “At Mobitel we have able to develop and provide state-of-art technology to our customer base which includes 2G/ 3G/ 4G/ wifi services. We uphold the values and best practices in Project Management as they enable us to synchronize these systems with Mobitel’s operational processes to achieve performance excellencein engineering each year,” said Mobitel Senior General Manager – Engineering and Operations Rasantha Hettithanthrige.