Turkcell signed a cooperation agreement with Lynk, which aims to provide mobile services via satellites. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the world’s largest mobile technology event held in Barcelona, Turkcell will work together with Lynk, one of the world’s leading satellite communications companies, to test SMS, voice and data services directly to phones via satellite.
Turkcell started working on satellite communication for its communication infrastructure!
Continuing its leadership in digitalization and technology, Turkcell signed a cooperation agreement with Lynk, which aims to provide mobile services via satellites in line with its strategies of creating standards, closely monitoring and testing new generation technologies. Within the scope of the collaboration held at MWC24 in Barcelona, Turkcell; With Lynk, it aims to test SMS, voice and data services directly to phones via satellite.
Turkcell General Manager Dr. Ali Taha Koç said:
“We are taking our leadership in technology to a new dimension. NTN (Non-Terrestrial Networks) solutions, which set out to play a complementary role to existing mobile networks in rural areas where terrestrial networks cannot be established or access opportunities are limited, are gaining importance all over the world.
Thanks to constantly developing satellite technologies, we are exploring cooperation opportunities with NTN companies in order to serve our customers in terrestrial areas and high seas where mobile coverage is no longer available, and in this way, we are testing the services we aim to provide more uninterruptedly to every point of the geography.
With the aim of maintaining our leadership in bringing next generation technologies to our country, we continue our work on providing mobile services via satellites, as in many areas of technology..
We aim to add new ones to the collaborations we have signed in order to provide NTN services via satellite to our individual and corporate customers in the coming years. We do not only make international collaborations in this field.
At the same time, we maintain our agreements with local companies and continue our R&D studies focusing on 5G advanced (5.5G) and 6G. “With other collaborations we will make within the scope of MWC, we will add innovative and strong steps to the goal of making the Turkey Century the Century of Digital.”
It aims to provide service directly to commercial devices such as mobile phones and modems via satellite and is known by different names such as ‘Direct-to-Phone’, ‘Direct-to-Device’, ‘Direct-to-Cell’ or ‘Satellite-to-Phone’. These technologies aim to provide SMS, voice and data services to users in regions where there is no mobile coverage. While many companies are currently working in this context, global coverage and commercialization plans for these services are expected to be implemented in the coming period.
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