Telecommunications in Turkey

Communications of Turkey
Telephones main lines in use: 16.5 million, 18th in world (2009),[1] 12.3 million (Q3 2020)
Telephones mobile cellular: 62.8 million, 17th in world (2009),[1] 80 million (2018),[2] 82.2 million (Q3 2020)
Telephone system:
  • Urban Areas: both fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay
  • Remote areas are reached by a domestic satellite system
International service:
  • Three submarine fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black Seas linking Turkey with Italy, Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia
  • Overland fiber-optic cables connecting Turkey to Greece, Bulgaria, and now also Syria and Iraq
  • 12 Intelsat earth stations, and 328 mobile satellite terminals in the Inmarsat and Eutelsat systems (2002)[needs update]
Country calling code: 90
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 102, shortwave 1 (2014)
Radios: 11.3 million (1997)[needs update]
Television broadcast stations: 635 (plus 2,934 repeaters) (1995)[needs update]
Televisions: 20.9 million (1997)[needs update]
Internet country code: .tr
Internet hosts: 3.4 million (2010)[1]
Internet Service Providers ISPs: 50 (2001)
Internet users: 27.2 million (2009),[1] 46 million (2016),[3] 80.9 million (Q3 2020)

Telecommunications in Turkey provides information about television, radio, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet in Turkey.

Küçük Çamlıca TV Radio Tower in Istanbul
  1. ^ a b c d "CIA - The World Factbook". Cia.gov. Archived from the original on January 10, 2021. Retrieved 2012-11-05.
  2. ^ "Number of mobile subscribers reaches 80 million in Turkey - Latest News". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  3. ^ "Internet users by region and country, 2010-2016". ITU.