Turkey Telecoms Market Report

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

Publication Date: December 2023

Report Pages: 169

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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Turkey makes progress with its own-built satellite

Turkey continues to develop its capabilities within its telecom sector, becoming one of the relatively few countries able to build and develop its own communications satellites. With the successful launch of the Turksat 5A and 5B satellites in 2021, the country has vastly increased its bandwidth capacity. These satellites will be joined by the Turksat 6A in early 2023.

In addition to these technological breakthroughs, the country’s telcos have invested in fibre infrastructure, with Vodafone Turkey having trialled a 1Tb/s service in late 2021 to support its 5G network backhaul and improve the quality of its fixed infrastructure.

Deployment of fibre-based broadband networks are well established, with fibre accounting for 26.7% of all fixed broadband connections as of early 2022. The DSL sector still dominates, accounting for about 63% of connections, but its share is steadily declining, year-on-year, while the number of fibre connections has grown strongly.

Improved fixed and mobile infrastructure is underpinning the country’s initiatives relating to Smart City concepts, which have become a key area of focus for the emerging digital economy and the transformation to a knowledge-based economy. Turkey’s National Smart Cities Strategy and Action Plan runs through to 2023.

Key developments:

SpaceX launches the Turksat 5A and 5B satellites, expects to launch the Turksat 6A satellite in early 2023;
Turkey Wealth Fund agrees to acquire 55% stake in Turk Telekom held by the LYY special purpose vehicle;
Turkey identified as one of the key markets for mobile subscriber growth through to 2025 in the MENA region;
Vodafone Turkey and vendor partner Nokia provide data at up to 1Tb/s in trials;
Report update includes the regulator’s market updates for Q4 2021, telcos’ financial and operating data to December 2021, updated Telecom maturity Index charts and analyses, an assessment of the global impact of the pandemic on the telecoms sector, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report include:

Turk Telekom, Turkcell, Vodafone Turkey, Turksat, Superonline, Millenicom.

Key statistics
Country overview
Covid-19 and its impact on the telecom sector

Economic considerations and responses
Subscribers
Infrastructure

Telecommunications market

Market analysis

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)
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)
Telsim privatisation
Retail Price Cap Regulation

Mobile market

Mobile statistics

Mobile voice

Mobile infrastructure

Tower infrastructure
5G
4G (LTE)
Mobile broadband
M2M

Major mobile operators

Turkcell
Vodafone Turkey
Turk Telekom

Mobile content and applications

M-commerce

Fixed broadband market

Market analysis
Broadband statistics
Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) networks
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks
Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
Wireless broadband

Fixed network operators

Turk Telekom
Turksat
Turkcell Group
Millenicom

Telecommunications infrastructure

Overview of the national telecom network
International infrastructure

Submarine cable networks
Terrestrial networks
Satellites

Smart infrastructure

Appendix – Historic data
Glossary of abbreviations
Related reports

List of Tables

Table 1 – Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities - Turkey – 2021 (e)
Table 2 – Turkey - GDP and inflation – 2012 – 2022
Table 3 – Development of telecom revenue and investment (TRY million) – 2012 – 2021
Table 4 – Change in fixed and mobile voice traffic (billion minutes) – 2012 – 2021
Table 5 – Change in the number of fixed number portings – 2012 – 2021
Table 6 – Change in the number of mobile number portings – 2012 – 2021
Table 7 – Growth in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2012 – 2027
Table 8 – Change in number of prepaid and postpaid subscribers (million) – 2012 – 2021
Table 9 – Change in the ratio of prepaid to contract subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Table 10 – Change in number of mobile subscribers by platform (million) – 2012 – 2021
Table 11 – Growth in the number of M2M connections – 2012 – 2021
Table 12 – Growth in the number of active mobile broadband subscriptions and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Table 13 – Growth in the number of mobile broadband subscriptions by type (million) – 2012 – 2021
Table 14 – Change in the share of mobile subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2021
Table 15 – Change in the number of Turkcell’s mobile subscribers (million) – 2012 – 2021
Table 16 – Turkcell Turkey’s annualised mobile ARPU (TRY/month) – 2012 – 2021
Table 17 – Turkcell Turkey - mobile data usage and MoU – 2012 – 2021
Table 18 – Turkcell smartphone penetration – 2012 – 2021
Table 19 – Development of Vodafone Turkey’s financial data (€ million) – 2016 – 2022
Table 20 – Change in the number of Vodafone Turkey’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Table 21 – Development of Vodafone Turkey’s mobile ARPU (TRY/month) – 2012 – 2021
Table 22 – Development of Turk Telekom’s mobile ARPU (TRY/month) – 2012 – 2021
Table 23 – Change in the number of Turk Telekom’s mobile subscribers by type (million) – 2012 – 2021
Table 24 – Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Table 25 – Average monthly data usage per Turk Telekom broadband subscriber – 2012 – 2021
Table 26 – Change in Turk Telecom broadband ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Table 27 – Change in Turkcell's fibre broadband ARPU – 2016 – 2021
Table 28 – Growth in the number of cable broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Table 29 – Growth in the number of DSL subscriptions – 2012 – 2021
Table 30 – Growth in the number of fibre broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Table 31 – Increase in fibre cable length (km) – 2012 – 2021
Table 32 – Increase in the number of Superonline’s fibre broadband subscribers (million) – 2013 – 2021
Table 33 – Development of Turk Telekom Group’s financial data (TRY billion) – 2012 – 2021
Table 34 – Turk Telekom Group - mobile and fixed revenue (TRY billion) – 2012 – 2021
Table 35 – Change in Turk Telecom’s fixed-line ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Table 36 – Development of Superonline’s financial data (TRY million) – 2012 – 2020
Table 37 – Development of Turkcell Group’s financial data (TRY billion) – 2012 – 2021
Table 38 – Increase in Turkcell's fixed-line ARPU – 2013 – 2021
Table 39 – Change in the number of fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
Table 40 – Change in the number of public payphones – 2012 – 2021
Table 41 – Increase in international internet bandwidth – 2012 – 2020
Table 42 – Historic - Turkey - fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1996 – 2011
Table 43 – Historic - Turkey - mobile subscribers and penetration rate - 1996 – 2011 –
Table 44 – Historic - Turkey - breakdown of mobile revenue (proportion of total revenue) – 2008 – 2016
Table 45 – Historic - Turkey - mobile operators’ market share by subscribers – 2007 – 2011
Table 46 – Historic - Turkey - ratio of prepaid to postpaid subscribers – 2000 – 2011
Table 47 – Historic - Turkey - mobile operators’ market share by revenue – Q3 2017
Table 48 – Historic - Vodafone Turkey pre- and post-paid ARPU (TRY/month) – 2006 – 2011
Table 49 – Historic - Vodafone Turkey smartphone penetration – 2011 – 2015
Table 50 – Historic - Turkcell Turkey average monthly MOU and mobile churn – 2001 – 2011
Table 51 – Historic - Vodafone Turkey financial data (GBP million) – 2008 – 2016
Table 52 – Historic - Turk Telekom Group - revenue, profit, EBITDA, and CAPEX (TRY billion) – 2007 – 2011
Table 53 – Historic - mobile operators’ revenue market share by service – Q3 2017
Table 54 – Historic - Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2011
Table 55 – Historic - Change in number of mobile subscribers by platform (million) – 2009 – 2011
Table 56 – Historic - Turkcell Turkey’s annualised mobile ARPU (TRY/month) – 2009 – 2011
Table 57 – Historic - Change in Turk Telecom broadband ARPU – 2009 – 2011
Table 58 – Historic - Turk Telekom Group - mobile and fixed revenue (TRY billion) – 2009 – 2011
Table 59 – Historic - Change in Turk Telecom’s fixed-line ARPU – 2009 – 2011
Table 60 – Historic - Development of Superonline’s financial data (TRY million) – 2009 – 2011
Table 61 – Historic - Change in the number of public payphones – 2009 – 2011

List of Charts

Chart 7 – Development of telecom revenue and investment – 2012 – 2021
Chart 8 – Change in fixed and mobile voice traffic – 2012 – 2021
Chart 9 – Change in the number of fixed number portings – 2012 – 2021
Chart 10 – Change in the number of mobile number portings – 2012 – 2021
Chart 11 – Growth in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2012 – 2027
Chart 12 – Change in number of prepaid and postpaid subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Chart 13 – Change in the ratio of prepaid to contract subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Chart 14 – Change in number of mobile subscribers by platform – 2012 – 2021
Chart 15 – Growth in the number of M2M connections – 2012 – 2021
Chart 16 – Growth in the number of active mobile broadband subscriptions and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Chart 17 – Growth in the number of mobile broadband subscriptions by type – 2012 – 2021
Chart 18 – Change in the share of mobile subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2021
Chart 19 – Change in the number of Turkcell’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Chart 20 – Turkcell Turkey’s annualised mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Chart 21 – Development of Vodafone Turkey’s financial data – 2016 – 2022
Chart 22 – Change in the number of Vodafone Turkey’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Chart 23 – Development of Vodafone Turkey’s mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Chart 24 – Development of Turk Telekom’s mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Chart 25 – Change in the number of Turk Telekom’s mobile subscribers by type – 2012 – 2021
Chart 26 – Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Chart 27 – Change in Turk Telecom broadband ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Chart 28 – Change in Turkcell's fibre broadband ARPU – 2016 – 2021
Chart 29 – Growth in the number of cable broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Chart 30 – Growth in the number of DSL subscriptions – 2012 – 2021
Chart 31 – Growth in the number of fibre broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Chart 32 – Increase in fibre cable length (km) – 2012 – 2021
Chart 33 – Increase in the number of Superonline’s fibre broadband subscribers (million) – 2013 – 2021
Chart 34 – Development of Turk Telekom Group’s financial data – 2012 – 2021
Chart 35 – Turk Telekom Group - mobile and fixed revenue – 2012 – 2021
Chart 36 – Change in Turk Telecom’s fixed-line ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Chart 37 – Development of Superonline’s financial data – 2012 – 2020
Chart 38 – Development of Turkcell Group’s financial data – 2012 – 2021
Chart 39 – Increase in Turkcell's fixed-line ARPU – 2013 – 2021
Chart 40 – Change in the number of fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
Chart 41 – Increase in international internet bandwidth – 2012 – 2020

List of Exhibits

Exhibit 5 – Mobile operators’ spectrum holdings by band – June 2021

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Turkey Telecoms Market Report

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

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Turkey makes progress with its own-built satellite

Key developments:

Companies mentioned in this report include:

Key statistics

Country overview

Covid-19 and its impact on the telecom sector

Telecommunications market

Regulatory environment

Mobile market

Fixed broadband market

Fixed network operators

Telecommunications infrastructure

Appendix – Historic data

Glossary of abbreviations

Related reports

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Share this Report

TMT Intelligence

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Research Methodology

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