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Phone Lines
The telephone services in Turkey are run primarily by Turk Telekom, which also provides mobile services alongside 3G Access. Other prominent telephone companies include Turkcell, Vodaphone Turkey and Avea and together all companies see over 70 million subscribers with over 91% of the nation on the wire. Satellites for mobile communications are run through Turksat but also use connections from Eutelsat, Inmarsat and Intelsat alongside cable and submarine cable systems to establish international connections.
Internet
The most widely used internet service in Turkey is Turk Telekom’s TTNET ADSL2+ service with speeds between 1Mbit/s and 100Mbit/s being available for purchase. However, many other ISPs include SmileADSL, Biri, Superonline, Uydunet, Turk.net, Millenicom, Pttcell, Pocell and Bimcell, which offer similar services. It’s believed that there are over 27.3 million users. The top code for the country is .tr.
Recently though, many of these ISPs have come under scrutiny due to ‘fair use’ policies which are known to limit users’ broadband speeds for various reasons, as early as a week into a month. It’s also important to mention that numerous websites and services have been censored by the courts over the years and includes a flat widespread block of all pornography nationwide.
Communications
Over 50% of homes in Turkey use Satellite TV with most Satellite TV services provided through Digiturk, D-Smart and Turksat. Public channels number around fifteen with private channels adding over 55 additional channels. Of these the most popular channels are ATV, Kanai D, Show TV, Fox TV, Star TV, Samanyolu TV, Kanal 7, TRT 1 and Kanalturk, which make up over 55% of all viewing time.
There are over 1100 radio stations in Turkey, most of these which use long wave, medium wave and FM band for domestic broadcasting whilst short wave is reserved for international broadcasts, however, some private companies prefer the FM band for international broadcasts as well.
