The country’s biggest fixed line operator with 85 percent market share, SLT’s ownership is currently split between Japan's Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) 35.2 percent, the Sri Lankan government (49.5 percent) and the public (15.3 percent). SLT, which also owns a mobile phone unit, posted a 67 percent year-on-year growth in net profits of 2.30 billion rupees for the six months to June, driven by higher sales of CDMA or wireless phones and data services.
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Oct. 17, 2006 (LBO) -- Emirates Telecommunications Corp. is in talks with the Sri Lankan government to acquire a stake in Sri Lanka Telecom, its spokesman said Tuesday. The company, also known as Etisalat, is looking at buying a controlling stake in SLT, spokesman Ahmed bin Ali told Bloomberg News. He decline to provide further details.