The Ceylon Electricity Board now offers Electricity consumers the option of receiving a number of SMS based services such as the following.

• Receiving planned power interruptions by SMS
• Receiving reminders to settle overdue bills.
• Receiving outstanding Account balance by SMS

CEB will offer additional SMS based services in the future.

This service is currently available only to the consumers in the Colombo City, Kandy City, andWestern Province South I (Rathmalana Area, Dehiwala Area , Kaluthara Area) and will be shortly extended to rest of the country.

If you are an electricity consumer in any of the above areas, you can register to this service by following any of the following steps.

• Type regyour 10 digit Electricity Account number and text to 1987. (Eg: Reg 1597302235)
• Call,011-2498498 (for Colombo City consumers), 0714153058 (For Kandy City), 011 – 4418418 (For Rathmalana, Dehiwala, Kaluthara Electrical Engineers Area Consumers) and give your account number and Mobile number.
• Handover your Mobile Number to your meter reader.



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