Turkcell and Deutsche Telekom to Address Lower Termination Rates and IP Interconnection Challenges at Telecoms IQ Event

Turkcell and Deutsche Telekom to Address Lower Termination Rates and IP Interconnection Challenges at Telecoms IQ Event

LONDON, July 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    With the latest Directive from the European Commission
[http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm ] to drastically reduce mobile termination
rates across the EU by 2012, operators are currently having to develop new
business models to manage the reduction of revenues that this will cause.
Turkcell, Turkey's biggest mobile phone company, reported a fall in
first-quarter profits of 21 percent after competition increased and the
industry regulator cut termination rates (Source: Hurriyet Daily News
[http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkcell-first-quarter-profit-falls-21-percent-2011-04-28 ]
).

    To address this, Dr. Tayfun Çataltepe, Chief Executive of Corporate
Strategy, Regulations and Interoperator Business at Turkcell, will present
his insight on quantifying the effects of lower termination rates on
Turkcell's profitability on Day Two of the Interconnection and Termination
Rates Conference in September. He will also discuss how to analyse and
minimise the effects of lower termination rates on existing operator
business models, especially for MNVOs.

    Elsewhere, looking at the increasing migration to All-IP networks,
operators are rightly concerned about the interconnection with other
operators to ensure optimum capacity and QoS for their customers... there
are two main approaches to achieve quality over the internet while enabling
QoS through IP interconnection," said Thomas Grobb, Senior Expert Regulatory
Strategy from Deutsche Telekom, "One is within the internet... where the
focus is currently on the network interfaces. The other way is without the
public internet, by using, for example, the IPX system." Thomas will
showcase Deutsche Telekom's vision of delivering innovative services based
on quality enabled networks on Day One of the Interconnection and
Termination Rates Conference.

    Tayfun and Thomas will join other industry experts at the
Interconnection and Termination Rates Conference including:

   
    - Nezih Dincbudak, Senior Manager of International Regulatory
      Affairs,France Telecom-Orange
    - Uwe Fortwangler, Senior Interconnect Manager, Telefonica O2
      Germany
    - Toma? Tomsic, Head of International Carrier Services, Telekom
      Slovenije
    - Filip Sundram, Deputy Head of Market Division, National IT and
      Telecom AgencyDenmark

    For further details on the Interconnection and Termination Rates
conference, the event agenda is available at
http://www.interconnectionevent.com. You can also find additional
content free to download at the event's Resource Centre
[http://www.interconnectionevent.com/Event.aspx?id=508668 ].

    Notes to editor:

    Tayfun Çataltepe,Chief Executive of Corporate Strategy, Regulations and
Interoperator Business at Turkcell and Thomas Grobb, Senior Expert
Regulatory Strategy from Deutsche Telekom will be presenting at the
Interconnection and Termination Rates Conference, taking place from 19th to
22nd September 2011 at the InterContinental Hotel in Vienna, Austria:
http://www.interconnectionevent.com
[http://www.interconnectionevent.com/Event.aspx?id=508658 ].

    Yun Shi | IQPC International, 2nd Floor, 129 Wilton Road, London, SW1V
1JZ | Tel: +44-20-7368-9574

Source: IQPC International

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