Turkcell Holds Annual Technology Summit, Announces Customer Services Feature on Communication Platform BiP
10 March 2016 - 9:42PM
Business Wire
Turkcell (NYSE:TKC) (BIST:TCELL) held its 8th annual Technology
Summit in Istanbul on Wednesday. During the summit, more than 7000
attendees heard about innovations, disruptive forces and new trends
in technology from more than 100 speakers. Keynote speeches were
delivered by Anousheh Ansari, entrepreneur and the first woman to
travel into space as a space tourist, Richard Dobbs, the Director
of McKinsey’s Global Institute, Brad Templeton, the Chair of
Networks and Computing at the Singularity University, and Kaan
Terzioglu, the CEO of Turkcell.
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Turkcell CEO Kaan Terzioglu on stage with
4.5G speed test on screen during Turkcell's 8th annual Technology
Summit. Organized weeks before the April 1st launch of 4.5G in
Turkey, the Summit brought together 7000 attendees to discuss
innovation and disruptive technologies. (Photo: Business Wire)
Turkcell expands service-as-a-contact feature of
communication app BiP
Speakers emphasized the need for companies to constantly
question and disrupt their own ways of doing business.
Complementing the message, Turkcell, which adopted an
unconventional strategy by creating its own OTT services, announced
a new feature on its IP-based communication application BiP. BiP
is expanding its service-as-a-contact feature – which was
previously used for entertainment services – through partnerships
with Turkcell customer care, Ak Sigorta, a leading insurance
company, and Garanti Bank, a leading private bank.
“We have to take action at the right time to turn disruptive
technologies into successful business models – this also includes
non-conventional thinking, which is exactly what we are doing at
Turkcell with our OTT services” said Kaan Terzioglu, CEO of
Turkcell, in his keynote speech. “Starting today, our
communication platform BiP is an open platform which offers
banking-as-a-service with Garanti Bank, insurance-as-a-service with
Ak Sigorta and customer care-as-a-service with Turkcell. We will
also initiate a new phase in money transfers over mobile in
cooperation with a bank, with the aim of ultimately being able to
transfer money not between accounts, but between phone
numbers.”
Disrupting your own business
“Urbanization, technology, aging of the population and global
interconnectivity challenge our assumptions about how the world
works on an unprecedented scale. Technology is being adopted at a
much faster pace. Developments such doubling of countries’ GDPs,
that have taken decades – or even centuries – in the past, are now
happening over a handful of years” said Richard Dobbs, the
Director of McKinsey’s Global Institute. “In this atmosphere,
good business leadership requires looking outside to understand the
disruptive forces, responding quickly and in a cost-effective way,
and keeping a positive attitude.”
Brad Templeton, the Chair of Networks and Computing at the
Singularity University, focused on the transformation of
businesses and on the specific case of autonomous vehicles in his
keynote speech. “Traditional companies that manufacture physical
goods are incorporating computing into their products while
technology companies take the reverse approach and start from the
layer of connectivity. In my opinion, the most important part of
the car will be the computer, not the engine.” said Templeton,
sharing his view that the only way for companies – in automotive
and other sectors – to have the agility to survive is through
focusing their effort on software.
Closing keynote from Anousheh Ansari, the first female space
tourist
The Summit came to a close with a speech from Anousheh Ansari,
the founder and CEO of Prodea Systems and the first woman to travel
to space as a space tourist. Ansari urged the audience to use their
imagination to shape to future, emphasizing that there are plenty
of opportunities for people with an entrepreneurial spirit.
The Summit was held weeks before the launch of 4.5G in Turkey.
Visitors got a chance to try Turkcell’s 4.5G speed as well as
learning more about connected living, new smart products and IoT
services at the exhibition booths built at the Halic Congress
Center.
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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