With 10 Days to Go for Turkey’s 4.5G Launch, Turkcell Announces Country-Wide Readiness
March 23 2016 - 5:13AM
Business Wire
10 days ahead of the official launching of 4.5G in Turkey,
Turkcell (NYSE:TKC) (BIST:TCELL) announced that its network is
ready to start offering 4.5G services in all of the 81 cities of
the country. The announcement came during a press conference held
simultaneously in 5 cities. Turkcell CEO Kaan Terzioglu, who hosted
the conference in Istanbul, was joined by 4 C-level Turkcell
executives located in 4 cities in different parts of the country
via live broadcast.
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Turkcell CEO Kaan Terzioglu (center)
announced Turkcell's readiness for country-wide 4.5G service in
Istanbul. Terzioglu was joined by 4 Turkcell executives in 4
different cities of Turkey. (Photo: Business Wire)
Press conference held in 5 cities simultaneously
Speaking in Istanbul as the host of the press conference,
Terzioglu emphasized the extraordinary effort of Turkcell’s network
teams who have covered every city center in Turkey – a country
which spreads over a 783,6 thousand km² (302,5 thousand sq. mile)
territory.
“We have invested heavily in the spectrum auction held on August
26th in order to bring the fastest mobile internet to our customers
all over Turkey. With the 1,220,000 hours of work that our network
teams have clocked in through hard conditions, today we are able to
announce that Turkcell network is ready for 4.5G in 81 cities 10
days ahead of schedule” said Kaan Terzioglu, CEO of Turkcell.
“We are proud to have demonstrated our technological leadership by
rolling out 4.5G over such a wide geographical area – a unique
picture not only on a national but also global scale.”
During the press conference, Terzioglu was joined by Turkcell
CTO Ilker Kuruoz in Izmir in the western part of the country, CFO
Murat Dogan Erden in Erzurum in the east, Chief Strategy Officer
Ilter Terzioglu in Samsun in the north, and Chief Sales Officer
Murat Erkan in Adana in the south. Terzioglu and 4 Turkcell
executives tested the network’s 4.5G speed, and shared the results
with the audience in 5 cities through live broadcast.
Coverage meets speed on Turkcell’s network
The speeds achieved in each city through Turkcell’s unique
spectrum advantage are as follows:
Download Upload Istanbul
350.76 Mbps 45.32 Mbps
Adana 321.66
Mbps 49.76 Mbps
Izmir 347.89 Mbps 49.45
Mbps
Erzurum 354.16 Mbps 47.42 Mbps
Samsun 390.24 Mbps 40.78 Mbps
Turkcell network teams clocked in 1 million 220 thousand hours
of work, and traveled 790 thousand km to complete the first phase
of the roll-out which took 4.5G to 81 city centers. The coldest
weather registered during the roll-out was -30°C (-22°F) in Agri
Patnos in the east of the country. The highest location where
network equipment was installed was Hakkari in the southeast which
is 3200m (10,665 ft) above the sea level.
ABOUT TURKCELL: Turkcell is a converged communication and
technology services player in Turkey. Turkcell Group has
approximately 68.8 million mobile, fixed and IPTV subscribers as of
December 31, 2015. Turkcell was one of the first among the global
operators to have implemented HSPA+. It has announced two new HSPA+
Technologies on its 3G network to meet rising data usage. Having
successfully integrated 3C-HSDPA and DC-HSUPA Technologies, it
became the first mobile operator in the world to enable peak speed
of 63.3 Mbps downlink while also enabled an 11.5 Mbps uplink on a
3G network. Turkcell is the first telecom operator to offer
households fiber broadband connection at speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps
in Turkey. As of December 2015, Turkcell’s population coverage is
at 99.85% in 2G and 95.03% in 3G. Turkcell Group reported a TRY12.8
billion (US$4.7 billion) revenue with total assets of TRY26.2
billion (US$9.0 billion) as of December 31, 2015. It has been
listed on the NYSE and the BIST since July 2000, and is the only
NYSE-listed company in Turkey. Read more at www.turkcell.com.tr
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