Asia Pacific

The Lebara Group was founded in 2001 by Rasiah R Leon Baskaran Kandiah and Ratheesan Yoganathan. They shared a vision to shake up the international calling market. The trio were in Norway en route to the airport when inspiration struck: Ratheesan noticed the imposing Telenor building and wondered why they couldn t create a company of their own. On arrival at the airport the partners borrowed a pen and some paper from the information desk and the concept of Lebara was born - the name coming from the first two letters of the partners names. Now over a decade old Lebara is one of Europe s fastest growing mobile companies with five million active customers 1000 employees worldwide and operations in eight countries.