Turkcell (NYSE:TKC) (BIST:TCELL), Turkey’s leading
telecommunication and technology company, won a prestigious Global
Mobile Award with "My Dream Partner" - Turkcell's
service for the visually impaired. The service was chosen as the “Best
Mobile Service for Accessibility or Ease-of-use” in the category of
"Social and Economic Development" by the GSMA.
Turkcell CEO Sureyya Ciliv and Chief Consumer Marketing Officer Burak Sevilengul celebrated My Dream Partner's Global Mobile Award at Turkcell's Mobile World Congress booth. (Photo: Business Wire)
Turkcell’s “Dream Partner” - a cooperation between the company and Young
Guru Academy- enriches and facilitates the lives of thousands of
visually impaired individuals in Turkey. Subscribers of the service can
access daily news, columnist pieces that appear in daily newspapers,
thousands of books, location services, education and entertainment
content in audio format. The library of "My Dream Partner" contains 5000
audio books and is 3 times larger than the average volume of similar
platforms. Through its speech-to-text technology, users of the service
can take and share notes faster and with greater independence.
"My Dream Partner" is available to a wide mobile customer base as an IVR
service as well as an iOS- and Android-compatible application. The
award-winning service is currently serving 6,250 subscribers with an
average of 7,500-minutes-a-day total listening time.
Burak Sevilengul, Chief Consumer Marketing Officer at Turkcell,
received the award in Barcelona. “Our priority is to create a difference
in the lives of our customers through services that speak to their
individual needs. We are happy to have facilitated and enriched the
lives of thousands of Turkcell customers with "My Dream Partner".
Winning an award in such a meaningful category with this service
contributes to our enthusiasm to introduce further innovative services"
said Sevilengul upon receiving the award.
Turkcell’s free-of-charge service “My Dream Partner” was launched in
2012 and has served the visually impaired with more than 350 thousand
calls that add up to about 2 million minutes. The project is also
considered to be exported and implemented in Ukraine.
Turkcell's Smart Map service for its corporate customers and SMS+ were
also finalists at the Global Mobile Awards.
ABOUT TURKCELL: Turkcell is the leading communications and
technology company in Turkey, with 35.2 million subscribers as of
December 31, 2013. Turkcell is a leading regional player, with market
leadership in five of the nine countries in which it operates with its
approximately 71.3 million subscribers as of December 31, 2013. It has
become one of the first among the global operators to have implemented
HSPA+. It has achieved up to 43.2 Mbps speed using the Dual Carrier
technology, and is continuously working to provide the latest technology
to its customers. Turkcell Superonline, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Turkcell, is the first telecom operator to offer households fiber
broadband connection at speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps in Turkey. As of
December 2013, Turkcell’s population coverage is at 99.49% in 2G and
86.17% in 3G. Turkcell reported a TRY11.4 billion (US$6.0
billion) revenue with total assets of TRY21.3 billion (US$10.0 billion)
as of December 31, 2013. It has been listed on the NYSE and the ISE
since July 2000, and is the only NYSE-listed company in Turkey. Read
more at www.turkcell.com.tr
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