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taking advantage of the diversification extend the reach and deployment of its Türk Telekom International continually
trend and growing the company’s service services on a worldwide basis by making assesses the compatibility of its strategy
portfolio to provide a unique, market- use of PCCW Global’s SD-WAN capabilities, for each product and service, so by adding
leading service which is continually while at the same time PCCW Global can the SD-WAN service in collaboration with
being optimized for performance, while now extend the reach of its service portfolio PCCW Global to TTI’s current product range,
leveraging cost-effective broadband to a greater geographic area across Turkey, enterprise customers will experience cost
connectivity over both the Internet and Eastern and Central Europe where TTI effective, secure, policy-driven transport
4G LTE. Mr. Sameh Sobhy, Vice President, has presence.” Mr. Sükrü Kutlu, Group and improved performance.”
Middle East, Turkey & Africa, PCCW Global, CEO of Türk Telekom International, said,
said, “This collaboration will allow TTI to “In our complex business environment,

PCCW Global and UniStrong Collaborate to Deliver New and Exciting Global

Positioning Technologies to the Aviation and Telecommunications Industries

PCCW Global, the international operating
division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier
telecommunications service provider, and
Beijing UniStrong Science and Technology
Corporation Limited (UniStrong), a
world leading spatial-temporal product
and service provider, will collaborate
in the rapidly growing field of Global
Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
technologies, unlocking exciting new
concepts and services especially suited
to the telecommunications and aviation
industries. There are currently four global
navigation satellite systems, namely BDS,
GPS, GLONASS and Galileo, which are
capable of providing global positioning, technologies will also enable the provision and Development, PCCW Global, said,
navigation, and timing (PNT) services. of smart aviation solutions for airport “As a global ICT service provider with
The collaboration between PCCW Global authorities. Based on high-precision extensive high speed fiber networks
and UniStrong will extend the value of positioning and navigation technology, and cloud services coverage worldwide,
this technology further, linking satellite new airports will be able to leverage smart we are delighted to cooperate with
positioning to 5G mobile networks to civil construction works that will facilitate UniStrong with the aim to offer unique,
provide positioning data accurate to within safer and more efficient airport operations. game-changing solutions in Satellite
centimeters, thereby creating advantages These aviation technologies will also be High Precision Positioning (SHPP) and
that will unlock a wealth of new services able to integrate with a wide variety of Continuous Operating Reference Station
for telecommunications providers rolling IoT sensors, edge computing capabilities, (CORS) solutions ideally suited to the
out new networks to support Internet machine vision and other AI technologies new era of 5G, IoT and smart cities.” Dr.
of Things (IoT), smart cities and the to create intelligent surveillance platforms Jun Shen, Corporate Vice President and
aviation industry. UniStrong’s extensive capable of managing and enhancing many Chief Scientist of UniStrong, said, “The
experience in developing high-precision aspects of airport safety and efficiency. cooperation between UniStrong and
products, solutions and services will The installed base of GNSS devices in use PCCW Global will further promote the
enable PCCW Global to integrate new globally is forecast to increase from 6.4 development of professional solutions
services with 5G mobile infrastructure, billion in 2019 to 9.6 billion in 2029, with and applications that are oriented towards
providing High-Precision Positioning Asia-Pacific continuing to account for global users’ needs. Based on GNSS
(HPP) accurate down to centimeter levels. more than half of the global GNSS market. technologies, and deeply integrated with
This integration of precision positioning In terms of global annual GNSS receiver communication technologies, Big Data,
expertise and technologies has the shipments, the market is forecast to grow Industry 4.0, IoT, artificial intelligence and
potential to revolutionize industries from 1.8 billion units in 2019 to 2.8 billion other technologies, these solutions will
such as commercial drone operations, units in 2029, according to a 2019 market empower and influence more industries
autonomous vehicles and transportation, report by the European Global Navigation and countries, and promote BDS/GNSS
logistics, construction, agriculture and Satellite Systems Agency (GSA). Mr. global applications and international
others. This integration of leading edge Benney Cheng, Head of Strategic Project services worldwide.”

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