Turkcellaims to provide mobile services via satellites. Lynk announced that it signed a cooperation agreement with. 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 General Manager made evaluations about the cooperation. Dr. Ali Taha Koç“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,” he said.
Stating that they continue their national and international cooperation in this context, Dr. Ali Taha Koç said, “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 domestic companies and continue our R&D studies focusing on 5G-Advanced (5.5G) and 6G. “With the other collaborations we will make within the scope of MWC24, we will add innovative and strong steps to the goal of making the Turkey Century the Century of Digital,” he said.
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These technologies, which aim to provide service directly to commercial devices such as mobile phones and modems via satellite and are called under different names such as Direct-to-Phone, Direct-to-Device, Direct-to-Cell or Satellite-to-Phone, provide services to users in regions where there is no mobile coverage. It is aimed to provide SMS, voice and data services.