rnrnThilanga Sumapithapala told Lanka Business Online that SLT is looking at giving the consultancy to either Ernst & Young or PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
rnrnldblquote We will see who [which consultant] will give us the best model before we give them the mandate in about three weeks time. They will thereafter have about six months to complete the exercise, dblquote Sumathipala said.
rnrnThe government recently said it was renegotiating SLT quote s management contract with Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) of Japan.
rnSLT loses its monopoly on local and international calls in August, and Sumathipala says, the company is not ready, with the current monopolistic situation, to take on future challenges.
rnHowever, the restructuring plan Sumathipala says will not hamper SLT quote s network expansion.
rnThe company today launched lquote Project Hope quote to provi