Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu mentioned Saturday that preparations for 6G expertise have commenced along with developments in 5G-related framework, emphasizing the significance of digital literacy and home innovation.
He additionally reiterated the goal to launch Türkiye’s first native and nationwide communication satellite tv for pc, Türksat 6A, into area this yr.
Speaking on the introductory assembly for Terminal Istanbul venture, Uraloğlu emphasised that nations that don’t produce data and can’t flip the data they produce right into a product can not develop, and drew consideration to the need of being a digital society and adapting to the digital transformation course of.
“Digital society does not only mean having internet access, but also having digitally skilled individuals and businesses. I would like to point out that digital literacy is extremely important at this point,” he mentioned.
Furthermore, he famous that the difficulties skilled through the COVID-19 course of confirmed how necessary digitalization is and talked about that new ideas resembling distant schooling and dealing from dwelling have entered human life.
“Thanks to the power of our country’s digital infrastructure, we were able to easily leave the epidemic process behind. However, the process also revealed that we need to work harder to ensure that everyone can access the digital world equally and safely. In this context, we have taken strategic steps such as expanding our country’s broadband infrastructure and strengthening the fiber infrastructure,” mentioned Uraloğlu.
He additionally mentioned a complete of 94.3 million broadband web subscribers have been reached, together with roughly 19.5 million fastened subscribers and 74.8 million cell subscribers.
“We planned to extend our fiber infrastructure length to 600,000 kilometers by the end of this year. We aim to increase this to over 850,000 kilometers by 2028,” he mentioned.
Uraloğlu additionally emphasised the significance they connect to native, nationwide, and authentic manufacturing because the ministry. He acknowledged that they’re making progress within the native and nationwide framework for 5G-related work and have began preparations for 6G expertise.
“We are developing a 5G core network, 5G base station and 5G-specific management, service and software products, which are critical for 5G infrastructures. We are involved in many innovative projects such as smart factory applications, private industrial mobile networks, 5G-supported online remote surgery,” he defined.
“Another important step we will take this year in terms of locality and nationality is: It is Türksat 6A,” he famous.
“We aim to send our country’s first domestic and national communication satellite into space in June, and our preparations continue,” he added.
Regarding entrepreneurship, Uraloğlu acknowledged that Türkiye ranks tenth amongst European nations with $1.6 billion within the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He emphasised that being near the Western world and having a younger inhabitants makes it not tough for Türkiye to develop into the biggest manufacturing and funding heart within the area.
Finally, Uraloğlu mentioned that with the Terminal Istanbul venture, Atatürk Airport, which has served as Türkiye’s gateway to the world for a few years would now develop into a hub for 1000’s of startups.
“Terminal Istanbul will serve all of Istanbul with its unique advantages such as its physical conditions, central location, all kinds of transportation convenience including air transportation, and being right next to Türkiye largest public garden. It will develop science culture, technology awareness and competence in our society,” he mentioned.
Highlighting the group of Türkiye’s largest expertise and aerospace occasion Teknofest in earlier years on the airport, Uraloğlu concluded by saying the placement would additionally function the nation’s flagship in digital transformation and expertise growth, as Türkiye’s largest technopark.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
