Turkcell is a leading mobile operator in Turkey and several other countries. The summary discusses Turkcell's progress toward 5G networks and services: 1) Turkcell has deployed LTE-Advanced Pro technologies like massive MIMO and carrier aggregation to provide gigabit speeds on its 4.5G network across major Turkish cities. 2) Turkcell conducted the first live NB-IoT deployment in Turkey for smart city and utility solutions. 3) Turkcell demonstrated the first 5G field trial in Turkey and the region using TDD massive MIMO on existing spectrum bands and achieved over 24 Gbps speeds using mmWave spectrum. 4) Turkcell is collaborating

1. Salih Ergut, PhD
TURKCELL
PAVING THE WAY FROM 4.5G TO 5G

2. Turkcell: Leading Mobile Operator in the Region
• CONVERGED COMMUNICATION AND DIGITAL SERVICES PLAYER
• 9 COUNTRIES including FinTur Companies
• 50.4M TURKCELL GROUP SUBSCRIBERS
• 2M MILLION FIXED SUBSCRIBERS
• LISTED ON NYSE & BORSA ISTANBUL WITH A $7.3B MARKET CAP1
SUBSCRIBER BREAKDOWN
(M, Q1-17)
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Germany
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Belarus
Ukraine
Turkcell Turkey
1As of 26.05.2017
2Turkcell Europe GmbH operating in Germany changed the business model to a “marketing
partnership”. Turkcell Europe operations transferred to Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary as of
January 15, 2015. Subscribers are still included in Turkcell Group Subscriber figure

3. Turkcell Network & Services
• 51K sites
• 99,8% coverage
• 1Gbps DL speeds, VoLTE support
• 38.000 km fiber
• TURKCELL fiber backhaul in all cities
• 3M houses with fiber access up to 1 Gpbs
FIBER
MOBILE
SERVICES

4. Steps From 4.5G to 5G
Gigabit speed with
4.5G
Towards 5G: LTE-A
PRO
 NB-IoT
 Cat-M1
Spectral
Efficiency
 Massive MIMO
 Adaptive
Beamforming
New
Spectrums
New Radio
 Sub 6 GHz
 Mm-waves
 NSA
 SA

5. Towards 5G: Gigabit Speeds
ALL NETWORK 4x4 64 QAM / 256 QAM3-CA IN ALL CITIES
TURKCELL 4.5G network supports 1 Gbps speeds

6. Towards 5G: NB-IoT
FIRST LIVE USE CASE @ TURKEY
Smart City Solution
Air Pollution, Humidity, Temperature, Brightness
Utility Solution
Smart Parking, Smart Water Meeting

7. Towards 5G: Massive MIMO
• TDD (2.6 GHz B38) in Ankara
• FDD (1.8 GHz B3) in Antalya
– 6x more efficient
• First 5G field demo in Turkey and
in the Region

8. Towards 5G: eMBB
24.7 Gbps FIRST 5G DEMO IN TURKEY
@15 GHz with 800 MHz bandwidth User Tracking

9. Towards 5G: eMBB
70+ Gbps achieved...
@70 GHz with 2GHz bandwidth

10. Turkcell 5G Ecosystem
Collaborations Alliances R&D

11. Progress, Challenges, Opportunities
❶ ❷ ❸Spectrum ApplicationsTechnology

12. Salih Ergut, PhD
salih.ergut@turkcell.com.tr