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Stating that they continue to create milestones that enable digitalization, Önal said, “There are Türk Telekom wherever there are pioneering works that have been successful in Turkey. Today, as always, we are taking the lead in digital transformation with the awareness of national responsibility, and we aim to be the technology provider of our region by working together with local collaborations and strong global companies in their fields. By always keeping the local ecosystem in our focus, we lead our country’s vision of becoming a country that produces and exports technology, with the contribution of Turkish engineers. “We continue our activities to bring our country to a position that leads the world in new generation technologies, with the achievements of our group company Argela and its American subsidiary Netsia in the fields of 5G and fiber, and the role of Türk Telekom Ventures in bringing our domestic initiatives among the global players,” he said.

Türk Telekom CEO Ümit Önal met with journalists within the scope of the GSMA Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Stating that Türk Telekom continues to lead Turkey’s digital transformation with its high knowledge in the field of communication and technology, Önal said, “History imposes an investment mission on us. With this mission, we have invested 20 billion dollars since 2005 for the digitalization of our country. We continued our investments without interruption in 2023 to carry Turkey into the future. By taking firm steps with a successful strategy in the fiberization process, which is one of the prerequisites for digitalization, we increased the length of our fiber infrastructure, covering 32.2 million households, to 437 thousand km by the end of 2023. According to the ‘Advertising and Brand Health Research’ of the independent research company Nielsen IQ, we became the leader in the ‘Loyal Customer Creation’ rate in 2023, leaving our competitors behind. While providing the best service to our users in our country, our goal in the Turkish Century is; “To become the technology provider of our region by transferring our technology know-how to the local ecosystem and to move Turkey to a position that leads the world in new generation technologies,” he said.

“Any work that will reduce foreign dependency in 5G is our national duty.”

Önal stated that they are continuing to work intensively to create a domestic ecosystem that will reduce foreign dependency in technology, and said, “As Türk Telekom, we are the pioneer of innovative technologies, and as the operator most ready for 5G, we have achieved many firsts in this field. Our goal is to switch to 5G with as many local elements as possible. While we cooperated with many local companies with this motivation, we pioneered many projects and studies that carried our country into the future with our 5G trials. We launched the first public individual 5G experience at Istanbul Airport, under the leadership of our Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. “In addition to the 5G speed records we broke, we have undertaken many innovative projects such as our country’s first smart factory application, the first private industrial mobile network, the first live 5G match broadcast, the first 5G-supported online remote surgery and the first smart tractor use in agriculture,” he said.

“We work to develop a sustainable local ecosystem”

Önal underlined that making Turkey a country that produces and exports technology is one of the most important goals of the Turkey Century and said, “Being the technology carrier of our region with global collaborations and removing global borders and opening up to the world are important focal points of our ecosystem. What is more valuable is to be able to do this with our local power. With the contributions of our group company Argela and its American subsidiary Netsia, we bring our technologies that support our innovative vision to the world with our global collaborations through Silicon Valley, where the heart of innovation beats. In order to productize these technologies we have developed, we have important agreements with Juniper Networks and Net Insight, one of the world’s leading technology companies. While our products such as Open RAN solutions, RIC and SEBA are used all over the world, our synchronization product developed by Netsia in the 5G field has been commercialized. Argela and Netsia; He has 68 international patents, including 5G and fiber fields. “With the motivation we receive from these studies, we focus on developing products and projects to develop a sustainable domestic ecosystem in the field of information and communication technologies.”

“We are working to scale our initiatives internationally”

Stating that they attach great importance to the field of entrepreneurship, which plays a leverage role in economic development, Önal said, “While we continue our work with the aim of bringing our country to a leading position in the technology race, we create new unicorns from our country by supporting many more initiatives with our Corporate Venture Capital company, Türk Telekom Ventures, and our corporate venture acceleration program, PİLOT.” We aim to produce ‘s. With PILOT, we have provided a total of approximately 32 million TL in cash support to 111 startups so far. “52 of them had the opportunity to develop their projects and ideas by receiving investments totaling more than 35 million dollars from domestic and abroad,” he said.