Türkiyes new GSM operator has started subscriber acquisition – chairman

Published February 16,2024

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Adem Öcal, Chairman of the Board of Netgsm, acknowledged that the corporate has been offering providers with mounted phone, digital cell phone, web service supplier, and communication infrastructure licenses obtained from the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) since 2009.

Öcal famous that they’ve established GSM core community infrastructures for digital cell community providers for the primary time in cell phone providers. He reported that they obtained the 0510 22X XXXX quantity block from the BTK and began offering providers as a check final yr.

Öcal supplied info that they’ve risen to the 4th place after privileged group corporations with almost 200,000 VoIP/SMS/web subscribers inside the scope of mounted phone providers.

Emphasizing that they prioritize the event of many of the software program they use in infrastructure by R&D tasks supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Öcal defined that they’ve a great workforce within the electronics and software program sector, their very own knowledge heart, expertise, and infrastructure.

Öcal acknowledged that the need of creating all infrastructure with operators whose base station is shared with cell operators however whose different infrastructure is totally owned by them arises from the necessity for mobility. He stated, “A virtual mobile network service is a mobile operator that shares the base stations emitting frequencies allocated for GSM, which is a scarce public resource, by paying rent, and there is no difference from them operationally.”

Öcal acknowledged that they acquired approvals for his or her purposes to the BTK by the tip of final yr, saying, “We made the necessary applications. Subscriber acquisition can be done via the mobile application with artificial intelligence verification on e-Government or smartphones without going to any dealers. We started subscriber acquisition as of this month.”

Öcal acknowledged that they are going to present providers because the 4th operator after Turk Telekom’s cell service TT Mobil, Turkcell, and Vodafone Türkiye, and added that numbers of different GSM operators can be transferred to Netgsm.

Öcal stated, “We aim to reach 3 million subscribers by the end of this year with number portability.”