Turkcell expands communications app features

• Turkcell (NYSE:TKC -2.7%) has added "service-as-a-contact" features to its BiP communications app, adding financial products and customer care to what had been an entertainment product.
• CEO Kaan Terzioglu described the offering at Turkcell's eighth annual technology summit. “Starting today, our communication platform BiP is an open platform" that offers banking, insurance and customer care in working with partner insurer Ak Sigorta and Garanti Bank.
• Turkcell added voice and video to what had been a disappearing-message app (like Snapchat) in November. It had been downloaded 4.2M times before spreading to Ukraine in December.
• The summit comes just a few weeks before the launch of 4.5G in country.
• Previously: Turkcell chief: We want to serve 100M in region (Feb. 25 2016)
• Previously: Turkcell posts record revenues on gains in mobile, broadband (Feb. 18 2016)