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Turkcell invested ₺50 billion, paved the way for digitalization

Turkcell has invested ₺50 billion to date. Chairman of the Board Bulent Aksu said that Turkcell is Turkey’s flagship in technology that opens to the world.

Turkcell Chairman of the Board of Directors Bulent Aksu stated that the company has turned into a global technology brand with the products and services it offers today, during its journey as a GSM operator 27 years ago. Aksu stated that Turkcell’s investments, which reached ₺50 billion by the end of 2020, continue. Stating that the common infrastructure in fiber is of critical importance in order to talk about a real digital transformation in Turkey and to enable the transition to 5G, Aksu said, “The proliferation of fiber is indispensable for the transition to 5G. For this purpose, we are at the forefront of initiatives for joint infrastructure construction and play an active role.” Noting that Turkcell allocates nearly 1% of its revenue to social investment projects every year, Aksu said that they aim to make a good difference in society with the power of technology and contribute to the construction of a more livable world in the long run.

THEY EXPORT DIGITAL SERVICES

Stating that Turkcell offers end-to-end digital solutions to its corporate customers as well as the products and services it offers to its individual customers, Bulent Aksu emphasized that Turkcell is the largest factory of Turkey’s digital industry and the flagship of our country that opens to the world in the field of technology. Aksu said, “While developing our products and services, we always say ‘Turkey’s data should stay in Turkey’, and in this context, we offer high-tech data centers located in different regions of our country to the service of users.” Emphasizing that the factor behind all these successes is the superior and widespread network infrastructure, Aksu said, “Thanks to our strong infrastructure and quality human resources, we have become a strong stakeholder guiding all our corporate and individual customers in Turkey’s digitalization journey. We started to export digital services and applications abroad. By the end of the first quarter of 2021, the number of BiP’s three-month active users reached 40 million. About one-third of these users are our customers abroad.” Emphasizing that Turkcell has spent all its earnings in this country, Aksu said that as of the end of 2020, they have invested a total of ₺50 billionin Turkey.

1% OF INCOME IS FOR SOCIETY

Summarizing their mission as TURKCELL as ‘to cover life and add value to the lives of its customers without leaving anyone behind thanks to technology’, Aksu said, “We allocate approximately 1% of our income to social investment projects every year.” Turkcell has provided education to 70,000 students to date with the ‘Intelligence Force’ project, which it started in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education to introduce gifted students to technology. It reached more than 100 thousand students in 112 schools in 60 provinces through the ‘Barrier-Free Education’ program, which it started in 2015 under the auspices of the Ministry of National Education. It started to support mentally handicapped students in the field of sports with the ‘Accessible Sports’ project, which it launched in 2020. With the ‘Women Who Write the Future’ project, nearly 3,000 women have been trained so far.

TURKCELL WILL BE IN THE E-MOBILITY INDUSTRY

Referring to the steps taken by TURKEY in the domestic automobile initiative, Aksu emphasized that Turkcell is one of the first telecom companies in the world to invest in the mobility ecosystem, including the production of electric vehicles. Noting that e-mobility will become an important business area in the coming period, Aksu said, “We do not consider our share in TOGG a purely financial investment. Our aim here is to be one of the important business partners of TOGG on the technology side with the solutions and services we will develop. We will play an active role in the internet of things, artificial intelligence, in-car entertainment and payment systems in the e-mobility platform to be developed by TOGG.”

COMMON INFRASTRUCTURE IS A MUST

Bulent Aksu said, “With 4.5G technology, we bring 1.6 Gbps in mobile and 10 Gbps in fiber to our customers. Fiber infrastructure does not only mean high speed. At the same time, the widespread use of fiber has a critical importance for the transition to 5G. For this reason, we believe that the common infrastructure in fiber should be implemented as soon as possible. Every step to be taken in the common infrastructure will also allow the country’s resources to be used correctly and efficiently. We believe that the competition between the operators should not be in the infrastructure, but in the services we will offer in the superstructure.”

Source: Sabah / Translated by Irem Yildiz

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