Turkcell Joins Telecom Infra Project to Collaborate with Industry Leaders
November 10 2017 - 7:04AM
Business Wire
Telecom Infra Project (TIP) brings together
the world's leading telecom operators, infrastructure providers and
system integrators
Turkcell (NYSE:TKC) (BIST:TCELL), announced that it has joined
the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and participated in the TIP Summit
2017, held in Santa Clara, Calif., USA on November 8th and 9th.
Founded in February 2016 by Facebook, Deutsche Telekom, Intel,
Nokia and SK Telecom, TIP is an engineering-focused initiative
driven by operators, suppliers, integrators, and startups to
disaggregate the traditional network deployment approach. The
community's collective aim is to collaborate on new technologies,
examine new business approaches and spur new investments in the
telecom space. Together with these leading companies, Turkcell
plans to play a significant role in helping TIP achieve its goals.
During the summit, Turkcell told the story of its transformation
into a digital operator to its fellow telecom industry leaders.
Turkcell CEO Kaan Terzioglu stated that it is exciting to
join TIP and continued, "We are delighted to become a member of TIP
and look forward to collaborating with the other industry leaders
in the initiative. The companies that come together at the TIP
Summit 2017, including Turkcell, will work together to reimagine
the traditional approach to building and deploying telecom network
infrastructure. Joining this important global effort will also
enable us to quickly bring new and innovative technologies to
Turkey by contributing to the development of the next generation of
open solutions for cost effective, efficient and flexible networks.
As the world’s first digital operator we believe our unique
perspective can help TIP achieve its mission to rapidly expand
network deployments needed to meet the world’s ever-growing demand
for connectivity. We believe that TIP will help close the digital
divide and promote greater inclusion, and we call our regional and
industry peers to join us in this important initiative.”
TIP Executive Director Leland Lai commented, “The
addition Turkcell to our growing list of top global operators is of
another clear sign of TIP’s growing momentum. We look forward to
working with Turkcell and are excited that they can share the
insights and lessons they learned from their digital transition
with the TIP community.”
More than 500 of the global telecom industry’s top operators,
suppliers, integrators and startups have joined the Telecom Infra
Project since its founding in 2016. More information about TIP and
its project groups is available at
https://telecominfraproject.com/
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