Turkey - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

Turkey - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

Turkey’s fibre market showing consistent growth Turkey’s telcos have continued to invest in fibre infrastructure in a bid to improve network capacity and underpin developments in smart infrastructure. This will also be supported by 5G, though a tender for suitable spectrum is not expected to be held until 2022 and commercial services are thus unlikely before 2023.In the meantime, the MNOs including Vodafone Turkey and Turkcell press on with 5G trials, including those involving participating factories.


  • Executive Summary
  • Key statistics
    • Table Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities - Turkey – 2021 (e)
  • Regional Middle East Market Comparison
    • MARKET CHARACTERISTICS
  • Country overview
    • Table Turkey - GDP and inflation – 2012 – 2022
  • Covid-19 and its impact on the telecom sector
    • ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS AND RESPONSES
    • SUBSCRIBERS
    • INFRASTRUCTURE
  • Telecommunications market
    • MARKET ANALYSIS
      • Table Development of telecom revenue and investment (TRY million) –2012 – 2021
      • Table Change in fixed and mobile voice traffic (billion minutes) –2012 – 2021
  • Regulatory environment
    • REGULATORY AUTHORITY
      • Information and Communications Technologies Authority (ICTA)
    • FIXED-LINE DEVELOPMENTS
      • Electronic Communications Law 2008
      • Telecom sector liberalisation
      • Privatisation
      • Interconnect
      • Access
      • Number portability (NP)
        • Table Change in the number of fixed number portings – 2012 – 2021
      • Carrier Selection
      • Universal services
      • Tax levies
    • MOBILE NETWORK DEVELOPMENTS
      • 3G licences
      • Third and fourth GSM licences
      • 800MHz
      • Significant Market Power (SMP)
      • MTRs
      • Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
        • Table Change in the number of mobile number portings – 2012 – 2021
      • Telsim privatisation
      • Retail Price Cap Regulation
  • Mobile market
    • MOBILE STATISTICS
      • Table Growth in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2012 – 2027
      • Mobile voice
        • Table Change in number of prepaid and postpaid subscribers (million) –2012 – 2021
        • Table Change in the ratio of prepaid to contract subscribers – 2012 – 2021
        • Table Change in number of mobile subscribers by platform (million) –2012 – 2021
        • Table Growth in the number of M2M connections – 2012 – 2021
    • MOBILE INFRASTRUCTURE
      • Tower infrastructure
      • 5G
      • 4G (LTE)
      • Mobile broadband
        • Table Growth in the number of active mobile broadband subscriptions and penetration – 2012 – 2027
        • Table Growth in the number of mobile broadband subscriptions by type (million) –2012 – 2021
      • M2M
    • MAJOR MOBILE OPERATORS
      • Table Change in the share of mobile subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2021
      • Turkcell
        • Table Change in the number of Turkcell's mobile subscribers (million) –2012 – 2021
        • Table Turkcell Turkey's annualised mobile ARPU (TRY/month) –2012 – 2021
        • Table Turkcell Turkey - mobile data usage and MoU – 2012 – 2021
        • Table Turkcell smartphone penetration – 2012 – 2021
      • Vodafone Turkey
        • Table Development of Vodafone Turkey's financial data (€million) –2016 – 2022
        • Table Change in the number of Vodafone Turkey's mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2021
        • Table Development of Vodafone Turkey's mobile ARPU (TRY/month) –2012 – 2021
      • Turk Telekom
        • Table Development of Turk Telekom's mobile ARPU (TRY/month) –2012 – 2021
        • Table Change in the number of Turk Telekom's mobile subscribers by type (million) –2012 – 2021
    • MOBILE CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS
      • M-commerce
  • Fixed broadband market
    • MARKET ANALYSIS
    • BROADBAND STATISTICS
      • Table Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
      • Table Average monthly data usage per Turk Telekom broadband subscriber – 2012 – 2021
      • Table Change in Turk Telecom broadband ARPU – 2012 – 2021
      • Table Change in Turkcell's fibre broadband ARPU – 2016 – 2021
    • HYBRID FIBRE COAX (HFC) NETWORKS
      • Table Growth in the number of cable broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2021
    • DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE (DSL) NETWORKS
      • Table Growth in the number of DSL subscriptions – 2012 – 2021
    • FIBRE-TO-THE-PREMISES (FTTP) NETWORKS
      • Table Growth in the number of fibre broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2021
      • Table Increase in fibre cable length (km) –2012 – 2021
      • Table Increase in the number of Superonline's fibre broadband subscribers (million) –2013 – 2021
    • WIRELESS BROADBAND
  • Fixed network operators
    • TURK TELEKOM
      • Table Development of Turk Telekom Group's financial data (TRY billion) –2012 – 2021
      • Table Turk Telekom Group - mobile and fixed revenue (TRY billion) –2012 – 2021
      • Table Change in Turk Telecom's fixed-line ARPU – 2012 – 2021
    • TURKSAT
    • TURKCELL GROUP
      • Table Development of Superonline's financial data (TRY million) –2012 – 2020
      • Table Development of Turkcell Group's financial data (TRY billion) –2012 – 2021
      • Table Increase in Turkcell's fixed-line ARPU – 2013 – 2021
    • MILLENICOM
  • Telecommunications infrastructure
    • OVERVIEW OF THE NATIONAL TELECOM NETWORK
      • Table Change in the number of fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
      • Table Change in the number of public payphones – 2012 – 2021
    • INTERNATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
      • Submarine cable networks
        • Table Increase in international internet bandwidth – 2012 – 2020
      • Terrestrial networks
      • Satellites
    • SMART INFRASTRUCTURE
  • Appendix – Historic data
    • Table Historic - Turkey - fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1996 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Turkey - mobile subscribers and penetration rate - 1996 – 2011 –
    • Table Historic - Turkey - breakdown of mobile revenue (proportion of total revenue) –2008 – 2016
    • Table Historic - Turkey - mobile operators' market share by subscribers – 2007 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Turkey - ratio of prepaid to postpaid subscribers – 2000 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Turkey - mobile operators' market share by revenue – Q3 2017
    • Table Historic - Vodafone Turkey pre- and post-paid ARPU (TRY/month) –2006 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Vodafone Turkey smartphone penetration – 2011 – 2015
    • Table Historic - Turkcell Turkey average monthly MOU and mobile churn – 2001 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Vodafone Turkey financial data (GBP million) –2008 – 2016
    • Table Historic - Turk Telekom Group - revenue, profit, EBITDA, and CAPEX (TRY billion) –2007 – 2011
    • Table Historic - mobile operators' revenue market share by service – Q3 2017
    • Table Historic - Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Change in number of mobile subscribers by platform (million) –2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Turkcell Turkey's annualised mobile ARPU (TRY/month) –2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Change in Turk Telecom broadband ARPU – 2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Turk Telekom Group - mobile and fixed revenue (TRY billion) –2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Change in Turk Telecom's fixed-line ARPU – 2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Development of Superonline's financial data (TRY million) –2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Change in the number of public payphones – 2009 – 2011
  • Glossary of abbreviations
  • Related reports

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