Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, operators by the obligation to provide services to settlements, all costs are met and said that they deliver internet services. Minister Uraloğlu said, “We take mobile sound and wide band internet services by meeting all costs with 4.5G technology, especially to our citizens living in rural areas. We express these works as universal service projects. ” He said.
Minister Uraloğlu stated that the studies on the universal service in our country were based on the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles regarding the collection of the ‘Universal Service Law’ No. 5369 ‘and’ the collection of universal service revenues and expenses’.
“In our country, there is no obligation to provide commercial electronic communication services to rural settlements with higher access to geographical conditions and with a higher cost of infrastructure installation. In these settlements, all infrastructure installation and operating costs are provided to the public resources within the framework of the provisions of the Universal Service Law No. 5369. ”
“The work is done through the settlement”
In the priority of settlements; Minister Uraloğlu underlined that it is a permanent settlement, the presence of close settlements that can be covered and the population is taken into consideration. Requests for the coverage can be sent directly to us through the consumer complaint system or through other institutions. ”
Minister Uraloğlu said that Drive-Test coverage measurements were made to determine whether there is the opportunity to communicate in the settlement to be provided. Uraloğlu added that the settlements with a population between 50 and 1000 people, which do not cover mobile operators and do not have the obligation to cover mobile operators can be included in the universal service projects.
Within the scope of the amendment made in the Law no. ‘Upon the request of the Ministry, the institution is authorized to determine the universal service obligation and obligations directly according to the requirements of the work or according to the methods listed in the fifth paragraph of this article, to calculate the net cost of universal service, to make all kinds of payments to the universal service obligations, to pay them from the budget of the institution and to control them. provision. In this context, studies are carried out within the framework of protocols signed with operators under CTK coordination. ”
Minister Uraloğlu, within the scope of universal service projects; 3 projects instead of 3521 settlements within the scope of the project, Mobile Technologies, Wimax Project within the scope of 2044 settlement instead of fixed wireless access technology said.
Summarizing the services provided within the scope of the project, Minister Uraloğlu conveyed the following information:
“Part 1-2 project established within the scope of 2 thousand 728 settlements instead of 2G and 4.5 g of the fields of the maintenance and operation of the fields and 3 projects within the scope of the 3 thousand settlements 2G and 4.5 g of services provided by the establishment and maintenance enterprise is provided by TURKSAT. With the maintenance and business of the fields where the 2044 settlements established within the scope of the Wimax project, the fields of 2G and 4.5G services established within the scope of the 2-3 projects of the fields that are provided with fixed telephone and internet services are carried out by Türk Telekom. The core network operation of the fields established within the scope of Part 1 Project is carried out by Turkcell. ”
Stating that 2G and 4.5G mobile communication services were provided instead of 229 settlements in 59 provinces in 2024, Minister Uraloğlu said, “Within the scope of the Part-3 project; In 2023, 2G and 4.5G mobile communication service instead of 504 new settlements in 73 provinces and 2G communication services were provided within the scope of Part-1. he said.
Minister Uraloglu, Part 1, 2, and 3 within the scope of a total of 3 thousand 521 settlements 2G and 4.5 g mobile communication service, Wimax project within the scope of 2 thousand 44 settlements instead of fixed telephone and internet service said.
Noting that electronic communication services are provided instead of 5 thousand 565 settlements within the scope of Universal Service Projects, Minister Uraloğlu said, “We plan to provide 2G and 4.5 g mobile communication services instead of 233 settlements until the end of 2025. Thus, the number of settlements that we provide services with universal service projects will reach 5.798. ” he said.