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  • Deutsche Telekom Sets up IP PoP in Istanbul

    Deutsche Telekom Sets up IP PoP in Istanbul

    Deutsche Telekom Sets up IP PoP in Istanbul

    18th September 2012 15:16 IST

    Bonn, Germany (Business Wire (Business Wire India))

    Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the international wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom AG, announced today that it will expand its international Tier 1 IP network into Turkey and set up a new IP PoP (Point of Presence) in Istanbul.

    Together with its partner Turkcell Superonline, ICSS will set up the IP PoP at one of Istanbul’s most frequented telehouses in order to address the increasing demand arising from public and private IP-traffic consumption.

    Acting as a gateway from Turkey to Western Europe, the new global IP PoP will deliver quality access to Deutsche Telekom’s reliable and efficient high-capacity network so that ICSS can better serve carriers, service providers, content networks, and enterprises in Turkey and its surrounding countries with high-quality IP services in the public and private IP sector.

    Holger Magnussen, Senior Vice President Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions, states: “As a strong emerging market, Turkey and its neighboring countries offer valuable opportunities to the global IP transit industry, and the new Istanbul-based PoP will directly enable not only the growth of the local market, but also the ability of global players to connect effectively and efficiently to regional infrastructures. Due to the resulting, significantly increasing data traffic, we believe that Turkey will become a ‘hub’ for exchanging IP data among service providers and carriers in the region.”

    Murat Erkan, General Manager of Turkcell Superonline, says: “Turkcell Superonline is very pleased to see Deutsche Telekom’s interest in Turkey, enabling access to their global Tier 1 IP network from Istanbul. This partnership will contribute to the implementation of our strategy of making Istanbul the region’s Internet exchange hub and promoting Turkey as an intersection point for the global communication network. We firmly believe that our cooperation with Deutsche Telekom will contribute significantly to the Internet services of Turkey, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.”

    About Deutsche Telekom

    Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with almost 130 million mobile customers, 33 million fixed-network lines and over 17 million broadband lines (as of June 30, 2012). The Group provides products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has over 233,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 58.7 billion in the 2011 financial year – more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2011).

    About Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS)

    International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), an integral part of Deutsche Telekom’s International Businesses unit within the Europe organization, is the global communications enabler of the Deutsche Telekom Group and more than 700 external customers worldwide. As one of the largest carriers in the world, ICSS provides global voice communication, Internet connectivity to millions of eyeballs, and global roaming and messaging on next generation platforms, as well as smart content distribution, media exchange, and virtual carrier solutions. The international customers of ICSS experience seamless service provisioning, including global reach, and the highest quality. The variety of solutions provided by ICSS is based on an expanding ultramodern infrastructure: Deutsche Telekom’s international network.

    For further information, see www.telekom-icss.com.

    About Turkcell Superonline

    Turkey’s innovative telecom operator Turkcell Superonline is a fully-owned Turkcell Group company. Turkcell Superonline continually invests in new generation fiber-optic infrastructures in the advancement of its own. Turkcell Superonline offers ultra-wide broadband services to its residential and corporate customers through its own nation-wide deployed fiber network. The company also provides a full portfolio of wholesale and corporate services such as cloud computing, point-to-point circuits, virtual private networks, datacenter, hosting, security and back-up services. The company is the first and only telecom operator to provide 1000 Mbps Internet to residentials. Turkcell Superonline reaches all neighboring countries via its own 30,000 kms fiber network, realizing the vision of “Transforming the Silk Road into the Fiber Road”.

    For further information, visit www.superonline.net

    via Deutsche Telekom Sets up IP PoP in Istanbul – Moneylife.

  • Turkish minister signals possible Turkcell intervention

    Turkish minister signals possible Turkcell intervention

    (Reuters) – Turkish Transport Minister Binali Yildirim signalled on Wednesday the government may intervene on Turkcell if the shareholder dispute continues, telling Reuters he would pursue the public interest.

    A shareholder meeting at Turkish mobile phone company Turkcell due June 29 was delayed as two major shareholders, Altimo, the telecoms arm of Russia’s Alfa Group, and Turkish group Cukurova, failed to settle a dispute over the board’s composition and other issues. (Writing by Seltem Iyigun)

    via Turkish minister signals possible Turkcell intervention | Reuters.

  • Turkcell Donates TRY5 Million to “Turkey’s Money-box” to Initiate Education Campaign in the Van Earthquake Zone

    Turkcell Donates TRY5 Million to “Turkey’s Money-box” to Initiate Education Campaign in the Van Earthquake Zone

    By Turkcell
    Published: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 – 1:41 am

    ISTANBUL, February 15, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ —

    Turkcell (NYSE: TKC, ISE: TCELL), the leading communications and technology company, has initiated an education campaign in the Van region, which continues to struggle with the unfolding and devastating effects of its recent earthquake, with a donation of TRY5 million.  Supported by the Ministry of Education (MEB) and in partnership with the Turkish Education Foundation (TEV), the education campaign will be supported with a teachers’ campus and student dorm, as well as scholarships for promising students.  Additionally, a communication center will be launched in Van-Ercis.

    In a continuing effort to stand shoulder to shoulder with earthquake victims in the region, Turkcell, together with TEV, has appealed to all individuals, corporations and institutions for a collaborative gesture by donating to “Turkey’s Money-box” for the revival of Van.  The project features a Teacher Campus consisting of 2+1 houses to be built on 5 acres of land and a dorm to be built on land of 1,500 square meters; each are to have a capacity of 100 people and feature surrounding social facilities.  The Teacher Campus will enable teachers also to live with their families.  Construction is set to commence in March 2012 and be completed in time for the new education term in September 2012.  Additionally, 100 scholarships will be granted in association with TEV to successful students attending Industrial Occupation High Schools.  The more donations there are, the greater number of teacher’s houses built and scholarships granted.

    What’s more, in contribution to an improvement of the unemployment problem in Van, a communication center with 100 staff will be launched in Van-Ercis with the support of the MEB.  The MEB Communication Center, to be open 7/24, will initially take calls related to MEB Educational Technologies.  The call center is planned to be opened in March, and will employ staff from the neighborhood of Van with 50% being disabled.

    Commenting on the project, Turkcell CEO Sureyya Ciliv said that “Right after the earthquake, we got together to meet the urgent requirements of people in the affected region.  While delivering these services, we had one question in mind, “What else can be done?”.  In answer to the question, we came up with this project, into which we put our minds, knowledge, experience, hearts, and the love that we feel for our people, in order to share in the future and hope of Turkey.  Ciliv went on to comment that “People living in Turkey harbor a noble instinct to be helpful.  With this value, we can unite to overcome even the most difficult situations in the hardest of times.  We thought to ourselves, “Why not include more people and institutions in this movement to reach out to more people in need?”, and together with TEV we launched the “Turkey’s Money-box”.  As Turkcell we initiated a transparent, accountable and an exemplary campaign, donated TRY5 million to the “Turkey’s Money-box”, and loudly deliver this simple message to all individuals and institutions:  We will build a Teacher Campus and dorm with the support of the MEB to provide warmth to both teachers and students.  We will also support education through scholarships.  Let’s rebuild Van with every cent donated to “Turkey’s Money-box”.  Let’s reach out to more people and revive Van!”  Sureyya Ciliv concluded his comments by thanking the MEB and TEV for their cooperation in this project.

    Individuals or institutions wishing to support the Teacher Campus project can donate towards the total TRY60,000 cost of a furnished house, whereby the property is named after them.

    Donations can be made by sending an SMS to 5283 from Turkey and Northern Cyprus thereby making an automatic donation of TRY5, by writing VAN in the text body, or else online by credit card at .  Additionally, money transfers can be made at the banks listed below.

    *Akbank Ozel Bankacilik Nisantasi Branch (branch code 775) TRY account IBAN – TR50 0004 6007 7588 8000 0065 65 EURO account IBAN – TR91 0004 6007 7503 6000 6565 65

    *YapıKrediBankasiEsentepeOzelBankacilikCenter (branch code 375) TRY account IBAN – TR88 0006 7010 0000 0000 0065 65 EURO account IBAN – TR07 0006 7010 0000 0000 6565 65

    *Garanti Bankasi Mecidiyekoy Branch (branch code 119) TRY account IBAN – TR68 0006 2000 1190 0000 0065 65    EURO account IBAN – TR84 0006 2000 1190 0000 6565 65

    *Is Bankasi Gayrettepe Branch (branch code 1080) TRY account IBAN – TR91 0006 4000 0011 0800 7679 03 EURO account IBAN – TR87 0006 4000 0021 0801 4815 02

    *Vakiflar Bankasi Mecidiyekoy Branch (branch code 153) TRY account IBAN – TR94 0001 5001 5800 7299 6194 69 EURO account IBAN – TR60 0001 5001 5804 8013 2226 95

     

    ABOUT TURKCELL

    Turkcell is the leading communications and technology company in Turkey, with 34.4 million subscribers and a market share of approximately 53% as of September 30, 2011 (Source: Operator’s announcements as of September 30, 2011). Turkcell is a leading regional player, with market leadership in five of the nine countries in which it operates with its approximately 63.3 million subscribers as of September 30, 2011. The company covers approximately 87% of the Turkish population through its 3G and 99.07% through its 2G technology supported network. It has become one of the first among the global operators to have implemented HSDPA+ and achieved a 42.2 Mbps speed using the HSPA multi carrier solution. Turkcell reported a TRY2.5 billion (US$1.5 billion) net revenue with total assets of TRY16.6 billion (US$9.0 billion) as of September 30, 2011. It has been listed on the NYSE and the ISE since July 2000, and is the only NYSE-listed company in Turkey.

    Read more at

    For further information please contact Turkcell

    Nihat Narin, Division Head of Investor and International Media Relations Tel: +90-212-313-1244 Email: nihat.narin@turkcell.com.tr

    Banu Uzgur, International Media Relations Manager Tel: +90-212-313-1506 Email: banu.uzgur@turkcell.com.tr

    investor.relations@turkcell.com.tr  

    You can now follow the most up-to-date Turkcell developments on twitter by clicking on the link below.

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  • Turkcell and Huawei Select NXP Technology to Launch First NFC-Enabled Smartphone in Turkey

    Turkcell and Huawei Select NXP Technology to Launch First NFC-Enabled Smartphone in Turkey

    Turkcell and Huawei Select NXP Technology to Launch First NFC-Enabled Smartphone in Turkey
    T20 Smartphone Brings ‘Mobile Wallet’ to Turkish Consumers

    EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS, Aug 30, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — NXP Semiconductors N.V. /quotes/zigman/119156/quotes/nls/nxpi NXPI -2.45% today announced that Turkcell /quotes/zigman/291809/quotes/nls/tkc TKC 0.00% (ise:TCELL), the leading communications and technology company in Turkey, has selected the PN544 near field communication (NFC) radio chip for Turkcell’s recently launched T20 smartphone. The T20 handset, manufactured by Huawei, is one of the world’s first commercially available low-cost Android NFC-enabled smartphones. This NFC-enabled mobile phone will allow consumers to perform a variety of secure contactless transactions from convenient payments, data sharing, public transport, event ticketing and access control, while providing a secure, flexible and interoperable canvass to create the next experience in mobile-on-the-go.

    The Turkcell T20 is already pre-loaded with Turkcell Cep-T Cuezdan, a mobile wallet service from Turkcell developed by Turkcell Technology on Gingerbread 2.3.3 OS. Via the NFC-enabled phone, consumers can transform their physical wallet into a mobile one and provide an easy-to-use and secure mobile transaction environment for all the daily needs of Turkcell’s subscribers. Cep-T Cuezdan subscribers can also benefit from the discovery screen in the UI that allows them to know which cards they can include in their mobile wallet.

    Offering secure data storage, payment and transaction, the T20 handset uses a secure element in the SIM card, which is connected to NXP’s NFC chip, PN544, via the single wire protocol (SWP). The resulting NFC solution enables secure wireless two-way communication between the T20 Smartphone and other phones, terminals or readers. NXP provides a fully compliant end-to-end NFC platform for handset manufacturers and operators enabling next-generation NFC devices and services. Complementing the secure NFC solutions, NXP offers a complete open source software stack for NFC which is fully integrated and validated on the Gingerbread Android(TM) platform.

    “NFC technology is instrumental in helping us to achieve our ambition of increasing the penetration of mobile contactless innovations in the Turkish market,” said Cenk Bayrakdar, Chief New Technology Business Officer, Turkcell. “Working with NXP, we were able to build a feature-rich, interactive and flexible mobile wallet solution through the open source Android platform. This is our first commercial smartphone developed on Gingerbread 2.3.3 OS and we are extremely pleased to be first to market with this innovation in Turkey.”

    “NFC offers a truly exciting technology that will enhance every aspect of the mobile experience for consumers. Working with NXP, we are able to quickly bring to market the latest NFC-enabled handsets and mobile devices on a global scale while maintaining low implementation and development costs,” said Anil Oeztekin, Turkcell sales director, Huawei Turkey Terminal Department.

    “NXP co-invented NFC with the aim of putting the mobile phone at the center of the consumer’s world — the launch of the T20 is a significant achievement and truly supports our ambition to enable more and more NFC-based services around the world,” said Jeff Miles, vice president, mobile transactions, NXP Semiconductors. “We have created secure NFC solutions that can support a variety of mobile wallet applications to help mobile handset manufacturers, banks, retailers and network operators offer new services to diversify their business and provide added value to customers.”

    NXP has demonstrated that customers can now build secure NFC-enabled mobile wallets using an embedded secure element, secure element in the SIM, or micro-SD based secure element. The company offers secure and flexible solutions for all configurations and use cases.

    Links

    — NXP portfolio for NFC
    — NXP PN544 Product Sheet
    — Additional information on near field communication (NFC)
    — Turkcell T20 press release (July 7, 2011)

    About Turkcell

    Turkcell is the leading communications and technology company in Turkey with 34.1 million subscribers and a market share of approximately 54% as of June 30, 2011 (source:Operator’s announcements and excluding the impact of the change in prepaid churn periods in Q2 2011). Turkcell is a leading regional player, with market leadership in five of the nine countries in which it operates with its approximately 61.7 million subscribers as of June 30, 2011. The company covers approximately 85% of the Turkish population through its 3G and 99.07% through its 2G technology supported network. It has become one of the first among the global operators to have implemented HSDPA+ and achieved a 42.2 Mbps speed using the HSPA multi carrier solution. Turkcell reported a TRY2.3 billion (US$1.5 billion) net revenue with total assets of TRY15.5 billion (US$9.5 billion) as of June 30, 2011. It has been listed on the NYSE and the ISE since July 2000, and is the only NYSE-listed company in Turkey. Read more at www.turkcell.com.tr

    About Huawei

    Huawei Device is a global leader in providing smart devices that connect you with the world, simply. Huawei Device partners with 500 operators, including the world’s top 50 operators, across 140 countries. Huawei’s products and solutions have been deployed in over 100 countries and support the communications needs of one third of the world’s population. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth potential for its customers.

    About NXP Semiconductors

    NXP Semiconductors N.V. /quotes/zigman/119156/quotes/nls/nxpi NXPI -2.45% provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions that leverage its leading RF, Analog, Power Management, Interface, Security and Digital Processing expertise. These innovations are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications. A global semiconductor company with operations in more than 25 countries, NXP posted revenue of $4.4 billion in 2010. For more information visit www.nxp.com .

    Forward-looking Statements

    This document includes forward-looking statements which include statements regarding NXP’s business strategy, financial condition, results of operations, and market data, as well as any other statements which are not historical facts. By their nature, forward-looking statements are subject to numerous factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected. These factors, risks and uncertainties include the following: market demand and semiconductor industry conditions; the ability to successfully introduce new technologies and products; the end-market demand for the goods into which NXP’s products are incorporated; the ability to generate sufficient cash, raise sufficient capital or refinance corporate debt at or before maturity; the ability to meet the combination of corporate debt service, research and development and capital investment requirements; the ability to accurately estimate demand and match manufacturing production capacity accordingly or obtain supplies from third-party producers; the access to production capacity from third-party outsourcing partners; any events that might affect third-party business partners or NXP’s relationship with them; the ability to secure adequate and timely supply of equipment and materials from suppliers; the ability to avoid operational problems and product defects and, if such issues were to arise, to correct them quickly; the ability to form strategic partnerships and joint ventures and to successfully cooperate with alliance partners; the ability to win competitive bid selection processes to develop products for use in customers’ equipment and products; the ability to successfully establish a brand identity; the ability to successfully hire and retain key management and senior product architects; and, the ability to maintain good relationships with our suppliers. In addition, this document contains information concerning the semiconductor industry and NXP’s business segments generally, which is forward-looking in nature and is based on a variety of assumptions regarding the ways in which the semiconductor industry, NXP’s market segments and product areas may develop. NXP has based these assumptions on information currently available, if any one or more of these assumptions turn out to be incorrect, actual market results may differ from those predicted. While NXP does not know what impact any such differences may have on its business, if there are such differences, its future results of operations and its financial condition could be materially adversely affected. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak to results only as of the date the statements were made. Except for any ongoing obligation to disclose material information as required by the United States federal securities laws, NXP does not have any intention or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements after we distribute this document, whether to reflect any future events or circumstances or otherwise. For a discussion of potential risks and uncertainties, please refer to the risk factors listed in our SEC filings. Copies of our SEC filings are available from on our Investor Relations website, www.nxp.com/investor or from the SEC website, www.sec.gov .

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    SOURCE: NXP Semiconductors

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  • Turkcell Technology Becomes one of the Decision Makers in Europe’s R&D Arena

    Turkcell Technology Becomes one of the Decision Makers in Europe’s R&D Arena

    ISTANBUL, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Turkcell (NYSE: TKC, ISE: TCELL), the leading communications and technology company in Turkey is delighted to announce that its fully-owned subsidiary, and one of Turkey’s technology centers, Turkcell Technology, has been elected into the Board of Directors of a Cooperation Platform, namely ITEA 2. ITEA 2 was established in the interests of sustaining the competitive capacity of R&D in Europe, and is capable of shaping the future of the continent. In addition to Turkcell Technology, global technology giants such as Nokia, Telefonica, Philips, Daimler, Siemens and Bosch also have seats on the Board.

    Turkcell Technology CEO Semih Incedayi commented: “We believe that being unanimously elected to ITEA 2’s Board of Directors, thanks to Turkcell Technology’s track record of success and efficient participation in previous projects, and its technology knowhow is invaluable for both our Company and the country. It is essential for Turkcell Technology to play a decision-making role together with Europe’s leading companies in the R&D arena. Turkcell Technology considers ITEA 2 Board membership to be a significant role undertaken on behalf of Turkey itself. This membership provides us with a fresh channel for new experiences enabling us to expand our country’s frontiers; while enabling us to carry out Turkey’s strategic priorities at this focused platform. We will thoroughly support the promising projects of Turkish companies.”

    ITEA 2 supports pre-competition R&D projects in order for Europe to maintain its leadership in the area of software-intense service and systems. ITEA 2 is positioned under the umbrella of EUREKA, which is a platform where market-oriented and easily commercialized products and processes are supported in the European Union. ITEA 2 is a cooperation platform, on which leading technology companies from different sectors come together to transfer budgets and determine new strategies, aiming to create the most competitive technologies in Europe in response to Asia and North America. ITEA 2 offers fiscal support for a certain percentage of the budget of projects approved by the board of directors. The intellectual property of studies realized within the scope of the project goes to the shareholders. Meanwhile, established technology infrastructures are given to participating companies. Turkcell Technology already has eight ITEA 2 labeled projects and executes the EU and Turkey consortium leadership of certain projects.

    About Turkcell Technology:

    Turkcell Technology is among Turkey’s leading R&D and innovation companies. It was set up to develop competitive information and communication technology (ICT) services and products. The seeds of the company were sown with the establishment of Europe’s second-largest GSM operator, Turkcell. In 2007, the decision was taken to build a technology park company to provide an optimum R&D and innovation environment for Turkcell technical staff specialized in ICT. In the same year, Turkcell Technology Research & Development was founded in the TUBITAK-MAM Technology Free Zone (TEKSEB).

    Turkcell Technology has been developing services and products in the fields of network services and providers, SIM cards and terminal solutions, mobile Internet, mobile marketing, multimedia applications, business intelligence solutions and business support systems.

    Turkcell Technology successfully conducts its technology export activities to the Commonwealth of Independent States, Russia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. It aims to become a world brand in its field.

    About Turkcell

    Turkcell is the leading communications and technology company in Turkey with 33.1 million subscribers and a market share of approximately 54% as of March 31, 2011 (Source: Our estimations, operators’ and Authority’s announcements). Turkcell is a leading regional player, with market leadership in five of the nine countries in which it operates with its approximately 60.4 million subscribers as of March 31, 2011. Turkcell reported a TRY2.1 billion (US$1.3 billion) net revenue with total assets of TRY15.2 billion (US$9.8 billion) as of March 31, 2011. Turkcell covers approximately 83% of the Turkish population through its 3G and 99.07% through its 2G technology supported network. It has become one of the first among the global operators to have implemented HSDPA+ and achieved a 42.2 Mbps speed using the HSPA multi carrier solution. Turkcell has been listed on the NYSE and the ISE since July 2000, and is the only NYSE-listed company in Turkey. 51.00% of Turkcell’s share capital is held by Turkcell Holding, 0.05% by Cukurova Holding, 13.07% by Sonera Holding and 1.19% by others, while the remaining 34.69% is free float.

    Read more at

    http://www.turkcellteknoloji.com.tr

    For further information please contact Turkcell

    Nihat Narin, Investor and International Media Relations

    Tel: +90-212-313-1244

    Email: nihat.narin@turkcell.com.tr

    investor.relations@turkcell.com.tr

    via Turkcell Technology Becomes one of the Decision Makers in Europe’s R&D Arena — ISTANBUL, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –.

  • Huawei, Superonline implement WSON app in Istanbul

    Huawei, Superonline implement WSON app in Istanbul

    Huawei and Turkcell Group company Superonline implemented a directionless and colorless WSON (Wavelength Switched Optical Network) application in the Istanbul metro network.

    As the enhanced version of ASON (Automatically Switched Optical Network), WSON is based on the DWDM transmission network, having optical level switching capabilities.

    Designed and implemented by Superonline and Huawei through intensive engineering works, the Istanbul Metro WSON application is said to be the first successful commercial project of its kind with respect to realisation via upgrade over a live network that carries commercial services and its advanced optical switching technology (independent of direction and wavelength).

    In essence, WSON technology enables the uninterrupted flow of traffic to be transferred to alternative lines in case of multiple system failures and/or intersystem fibre cuts, which may occur in DWDM networks. This is due to the smart signalisation established by WSON between the applied network’s systems.

    via Huawei, Superonline implement WSON app in Istanbul (Turkey).