Fiber line length in Türkiye increases with investments

According to the compilation made by the AA correspondent from the 2027 Presidential Annual Program, while the information and communication technologies sector directly contributes to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), it also has a significant impact on the development of innovation and increasing the level of productivity in all sectors.

In order to establish infrastructure-based competition in the electronic communications sector, 206 operators were authorized in the field of infrastructure management as of June. With the 82 thousand kilometers fiber infrastructure investment made by these operators in 1 year, the total fiber length increased by 12.9 percent and reached 720 thousand 12 kilometers as of the second quarter of 2026.

In the fixed broadband access market, the DSL service market share according to the number of subscribers was 46.4 percent in the second quarter of last year and 37.8 percent in the same period of this year. During this period, the market share of cable internet service remained flat at 7.1 percent. The incumbent operator's share in the fixed broadband market stood at 53.1 percent as of June 2026.

After the authorizations for 5G mobile electronic communication infrastructures were completed in 2025, 5G services began to be provided in 81 provinces as of April 1, 2026.

As of June, the total number of subscribers using mobile communication services was 87 million, and the number of active subscribers of 5G services approached 44.3 million in the same period. The total number of mobile subscribers reached 102.2 million when machine-to-machine communications were included.

The total number of mobile broadband subscribers, which was 76.6 million as of June last year, increased by 4 percent to 79.7 million in June 2026. The total number of broadband subscribers increased by 3.5 percent in 1 year, reaching 100.8 million in June 2026. While broadband subscriber density was 117.1 percent for Türkiye, it was 176.4 percent in OECD countries as of June 2024.

On the other hand, it was noted that as of September, 60 percent of approximately 12 thousand companies and 22 percent of 1368 R&D centers located in technology development zones were operating in the information and communication technologies sector.

There are 142 providers offering broadcasting services and 939 providers offering radio broadcasting services

As of August 2026, there are 142 media service providers offering television broadcasting services and 939 media service providers offering radio broadcasting services with temporary broadcast rights from terrestrial media.

While there are 264 televisions and 91 radios with broadcast licenses via satellite, 156 televisions and 14 radios offer services via cable.

Media service providers who want to offer radio, television and on-demand broadcast services on the internet are required to obtain a broadcast license, and platform operators who want to transmit these broadcasts on the internet are required to obtain a broadcast transmission authorization. In this context, 45 organizations that provide broadcasting services on the internet have television licenses, 25 companies have radio licenses, 50 organizations have on-demand broadcasting service licenses, and 20 platform operators have broadcast transmission licenses.