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Strategic Cooperation Settlement Between Turkcell and Huawei
[Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2026] – Turkcell (NYSE: TKC) (BIST: TCELL), Türkiye’s main telecommunications and know-how firm and international data and communications know-how chief Huawei have signed three vital Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) on the Cell World Congress (MWC) 2026 held in Barcelona, Spain. By these agreements, the events additional strengthened their long-term strategic collaboration to form the way forward for telecommunications.
The agreements embody advancing AI capabilities and functions, accelerating the evolution of 5G networks, and driving forward-looking analysis into next-generation and autonomous community applied sciences, demonstrating the companions’ shared dedication to innovation management and next-generation digital transformation.
Strategic Collaboration on 5G Evolution and Main Community Improvements
Beneath the primary settlement, the businesses intention to develop sustainable and technologically main networks by leveraging the most recent applied sciences inside Turkcell’s infrastructure.
The strategic collaboration locations a powerful deal with 5G Superior applied sciences, aiming to speed up the testing, validation, and commercialization of progressive options. Inside this framework, the events will work collectively to broaden the 5G SA structure, pace up 5G service launches throughout client (B2C), residence (B2H), and enterprise (B2B) segments, and develop progressive resolution designs to deal with rising connectivity calls for and rising visitors wants. The partnership additionally covers the event of 5G use instances, together with assist for initiatives similar to 5G New Calling, and FWA functions. As well as, the collaboration encompasses superior know-how implementations similar to AI-powered fault detection and predictive upkeep options in fiber infrastructure, cross-data heart GPU pooling and collaborative AI coaching infrastructure providers, in addition to Tremendous WAN wide-area community options that ship safe, high-capacity, and low-latency connectivity for enterprise prospects.
Strategic Collaboration on 6G and Autonomous Community Applied sciences
The second settlement establishes a strategic collaboration framework centered on technical analysis and innovation within the evolution of AI-native autonomous community architectures. The partnership goals to develop forward-looking methods towards the aim of absolutely autonomous networks, whereas advancing the analysis, testing, and validation of next-generation community applied sciences.
Inside the scope of this collaboration, Turkcell and Huawei plan to conduct joint research on AI-native autonomous networks, next-generation know-how analysis and use instances. The partnership additionally contains joint demonstrations, proof-of-concept actions, and contributions to related standardization efforts as key parts of the cooperation.
Strategic Collaboration to Unlock AI Energy
Because the third settlement inside the broader strategic partnership, Turkcell and Huawei have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on advancing synthetic intelligence infrastructure, cloud platforms, and next-generation AI functions. The collaboration goals to strengthen AI capabilities, speed up the event of progressive use instances, and assist the creation of a strong AI ecosystem in Türkiye.
By this partnership, Turkcell and Huawei will collectively discover the event of superior AI platforms, assist the coaching of next-generation AI fashions, and work collectively on resolution co-design, proof-of-concept initiatives, and industry-focused AI functions. By combining Huawei’s international experience in AI and cloud applied sciences with Turkcell’s robust digital infrastructure and ecosystem management, the collaboration goals to speed up clever transformation throughout industries.
About TURKCELL:
Turkcell is a know-how and telecommunications firm headquartered in Türkiye, providing a novel portfolio of voice, information and IPTV providers over its cell and stuck networks together with digital client, enterprise and techfin providers. Turkcell Group operates in three international locations: Türkiye, Belarus and Northern Cyprus. Listed on each the NYSE and BIST since July 2000, Turkcell stays the one dual-listed firm on these exchanges. Learn extra at www.turkcell.com.tr
