4G Tender Postponed

Musa Savaş, the president of IT Reporters’ Association (BMD) explained that 4G tender had been postponed.

Musa Savaş sent a message from his personal website:

“Turkey's Ministry of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications called related public institutions and telephone operators the meeting on short notice.

“On May 14, 2015 at 10 o’clock Minister of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications, the president of Council of Information Technologies and Communication, Tayfun Acarer and General Director of Communication, Mustafa Koç and telephone operators such as Erkan Akdemir on behalf of Türk Telekom (Turkish Telecommunications Company), Kaan Terzioğlu on behalf of Turkcell and Hasan Süel on behalf of Vodafone attended the meeting.

It was agreed to postpone 4G tender for three months in the meeting. Reason of postponement is expected to be shared with public opinion today.

What happened?

The President Tayyip Erdoğan said “There is 4G tender on our agenda. World is talking about 5G. We shouldn’t lose time with 4G. Let’s skip it and proceed on 5G. If we keep up with 4G, it will be a total waste,” on his speech on Apr 21.

Technology editor, Serhat Ayan, pointed out 4G and 5G were not kind of things like iPhone 4 and 5 and ıt was impossible to keep up with 5G before 2020 at the earliest.

Ayan mentioned it remained still unknown what kind of new features and standards would come with 5G. He reminded that Turkey had 3G technology in 2009 while the world already had used it in 2001. Serhat Ayan stressed that if we skipped 4G and would proceed on 5G, we would fall behind the times.

Minister of Customs and Trade, Nurettin Canikli, said Erdoğan’s sentences could be perceived as directive. (EKN/BD)

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