Turkey may soon see the creation of a joint fibre-optic infrastructure company, without the backing of Türk Telekom.
Hurriyet reports that Turkcell Superonline, Vodafone and Türksat, along with some members of the association Telkoder, are preparing to draft a project about the formation of such a company.
Yusuf Ata Ariak, the chairman of Telkoder, said that it had been initiated by the general managers of Turkcell and Vodafone.
He added that although Türk Telekom had been invited to join, it was unable to do so at this time.
On the other hand, Türksat, a company that has valuable fibre-optic infrastructure, did join.
At this stage, the project will bring together around 55-60% of Turkey’s telecom industry.
