ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-In a deal with GSM operator Telsim that Motorola estimates at $2 billion, the company will supply and deploy a third-generation mobile network capable of advanced multimedia services in Turkey’s capital and largest city.
Telsim, which has 5 million customers, said the deployment of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System in Ankara, the capital, and Istanbul, the largest city, could increase the company’s customers to 7 million by the end of the year.
“Following our successful introduction of GPRS with Motorola and exceptional growth of our GSM network, the arrival of the third-generation service will take both Telsim and our subscribers to the next level of personalized anytime/anywhere access to messages, telecommunications, data, multimedia and the Internet,” said Hakan Uzan, Telsim’s chief executive officer.
Today’s agreement continues the relationship between Telsim and Motorola. In February, Motorola agreed to provide infrastructure, handsets and associated services for Telsim’s GSM network.
