TeliaSonera International Carrier´s IPX solution powers Turkcell’s 4G roaming innovation
TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC) announced today that Turkcell, Turkey’s leading telecoms and technology company, has enabled 4G roaming using TSIC’s IPX-based diameter signaling service. This ensures that Turkcell can serve its subscribers while they roam through 29 countries.
While some 10 million Turks travel outside of Turkey each year, it is the volume of international travelers to Turkey that drives a tourist industry worth USD25 billion. Turkey ranks as the world’s 6thmost visited country, attracting over 37 million international tourists every year. Via TSIC, Turkcell has already opened international 4G roaming with 31 operators in 29 countries.
“I’m proud that Turkcell selected our IPX-based services and am impressed with how our teams worked together to enable a 4G roaming service for a non-4G network operator.” said Matthew Jones, Head of Mobile Solutions, TeliaSonera International Carrier “It’s a first for TSIC and Turkcell, an excellent example of innovation and contributes to the notion of ‘anywhereization’ – the demand to share the moment anytime, anywhere, with anyone, on any device.“
“While travelling to 4G-enabled countries, our subscribers today can choose to use the high speed 4G services” said Elif Yenihan Kaya, Director of Network Planning at Turkcell, “Turkcell uses TeliaSonera International Carrier’s IPX network to establish secure and high performance 4G roaming services to subscribers in visited networks.”
Turkcell started offering its customers 4G roaming with TSIC’s diameter signaling service at the start of 2015. The cooperation is expected to expand further to cover more operators in more countries.
About TeliaSonera International Carrier
TeliaSonera International Carrier owns and operates one of the world’s most extensive fiber backbones. Our mission is to provide exceptional network infrastructure and services – empowering individuals, businesses and societies to execute their most critical activities. By working close to our customers, we make big ideas happen at the speed of fiber. Discover more at www.teliasoneraic.com or contact us at twitter @TeliasoneraIC
About Turkcell
Turkcell is the leading communications and technology company in Turkey, with 34.6 million subscribers as of December 31, 2014. Turkcell is a leading regional player with its approximately 71.5 million subscribers in nine countries as of December 31, 2014. It 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 enabling an 11.5 Mbps uplink on a 3G network. Turkcell Superonline, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Turkcell, is the first telecom operator to offer households in Turkey fiber broadband connection at speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps. As of December 2014, Turkcell’s population coverage was at 99.81% in 2G and 91.21% in 3G. Turkcell reported TRY12.0 billion (US$5.5 billion) revenue with total assets of TRY23.7 billion (US$10.2 billion) as of December 31, 2014. 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 or contact us at twitter @TurkcellNews
Media Inquiries:
TeliaSonera International Carrier
Charlotte Züger, Head of Communications, charlotte.zuger@teliasonera.com, + 46703200383
Turkcell
Hande Asik, International Corporate Communications, hande.asik @turkcell.com, +905329106471
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