Vodafone Business LIFT programme reaches 50 partners in Türkiye

Vodafone Business brought existing and prospective business partners together at its Partner Day event at the MEXT Technology Centre. More than 300 business partners attended the meeting, where the company introduced its LIFT Partner Program, designed to create sustainable growth with partners. The programme’s initial ecosystem in Türkiye has reached 50 partners. Speaking at the event, Vodafone Türkiye Executive Vice President Özlem Kestioğlu said the company would measure success not just by partner numbers, but also by customers won together, jointly developed solutions and long-term value.

In its announcement dated 13 November 2026, Vodafone Business said the event was intended to strengthen its partner ecosystem and communicate a shared-growth vision. Alongside LIFT participants, it included other partners that bring Vodafone Business products and solutions to customers. The meeting covered the company’s ecosystem approach and objectives for the coming period.

Combining different areas of expertise

Kestioğlu said connectivity, cloud, cybersecurity, data and artificial intelligence were becoming increasingly interlinked. Organisations, she explained, need partners able to combine different technologies around their specific business goals. Vodafone Business serves 1.7 million small businesses, 70,000 SMEs and 5,000 large organisations across Türkiye, according to her statement.

Responding to needs at that scale requires not only strong infrastructure but also the ability to bring different specialisms together within a single solution, Kestioğlu said. Combining partners’ sector experience and customer proximity with Vodafone’s technological capabilities can produce more tangible business outcomes for customers.

A more systematic partnership model through LIFT

The LIFT Partner Program is intended to give cooperation between Vodafone Business and its partners a more systematic structure. Its objectives include identifying joint business opportunities, developing technical and commercial capabilities and bringing jointly created solutions to more customers.

Globally, LIFT encompasses more than 300 partners across six countries. Its Türkiye operation has initially reached 50 partners. These programme figures are separate from the more than 300 business partners who attended Partner Day, which also included partners outside LIFT.

Kestioğlu said Vodafone does not view LIFT merely as a sales channel. The intention is to understand customer needs together with partners, develop solutions jointly and expand the resulting value. Success will be assessed through shared customer wins, solutions developed and long-term value created, rather than partner numbers alone.

Vodafone Business aims to support digital transformation across different sectors by combining its infrastructure and solutions in 5G, data centres, cloud and cybersecurity with partner expertise. LIFT is also expected to provide a foundation for sharing successful implementations and sector experience within the ecosystem, and for developing new solution areas together.

About Vodafone Group

The company profile accompanying the release describes Vodafone as one of Europe and Africa’s leading telecommunications companies. It reports networks operated in 17 countries, investments in another four and partnerships in more than 40 countries, providing mobile and fixed communications to close to 380 million customers in total.

Vodafone says it has capacity on more than 70 submarine cable systems that form part of the internet’s backbone. It is also developing a direct-to-mobile satellite communications service to provide connectivity beyond existing coverage areas. The group operates one of the world’s largest IoT platforms, with more than 260 million connections.

The profile says Vodafone provides financial services to approximately 108 million customers in eight African countries and processes more transactions there than any other provider. Its stated mission is to connect everyone through technologies extending from the seabed to the sky. These corporate figures are attributed to the company’s 13 November release, rather than independently audited by this publication.

Further corporate information is available at vodafone.com, the @VodafoneGroup account on X and Vodafone’s LinkedIn page.

Source: Vodafone Türkiye press release, 13 November 2026.

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