Huge claim for Turkey’s fiber infrastructure: Transition to common infrastructure
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“Common infrastructure will be established”
A Turkish official with direct knowledge of the government’s telecom policies, but requested anonymity, said: Reuters’a made important statements. Senior Turkish Official said, “We are considering the unification of fiber infrastructure and we are carrying out a study on this issue. The studies are still in the early stages and not finalized. “We aim to further strengthen our country’s fiber network by establishing a common infrastructure,” he said.
Nowadays, internet service providers who want to offer fiber internet service must obtain permission from municipalities to mine and establish their own network. This means re-infrastructure spending for places where fiber was previously provided by another company. Additionally, in some regions, excavation permission for fiber infrastructure may not be obtained. In case of transition to common infrastructure, infrastructure installations will be carried out by the partner company. Thus infrastructure installation costs will decrease and all operators will be able to participate in the competition using the common network.
Türk Telekom constitutes 78 percent of the current fiber network.
of Turkey 577.000 kilometre long fiber network %78’i It is in the hands of Türk Telekom. The rest %22’lik The share is made up by Turkcell Superonline, Türksat and Vodafone.
Other internet service providers, except Türk Telekom, advocate the transition to a common infrastructure for the development of the fiber network in Turkey. Türk Telekom CEO Ümit Önalharshly opposed the common infrastructure and said, “As a company that has built almost the majority of the fiber infrastructure so far, we see the common infrastructure demands of other companies as a move to ‘collapse Türk Telekom’s infrastructure’.”
Türk Telekom’s concession agreement will expire in 2026
between Türk Telekom and the state in 2001 for 25 years. concession agreement was signed and privatization was initiated for infrastructure installation. agreement in 2026 It will end later. After the concession ends, the entire Türk Telekom infrastructure will return to the state.
65 percent of Türk Telekom shares belong to the Türkiye Wealth Fund (TVF), which is affiliated with the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, and 25 percent belongs to the Ministry of Treasury and Finance. The remaining 15 percent of the shares are made up of public offering. Turkcell’s largest shareholder, with 26.2 percent, was the Türkiye Wealth Fund (TVF). Türksat is entirely owned by the state. Türkiye Wealth Fund can make decisions for common infrastructure.
Turkey’s internet infrastructure lags behind the world average
Internet in Turkey is expensive and inadequate. Turkey’s average internet speed according to Speedtest data 46,11 Mbps around the world with speed 102nd place It is located. We are behind countries such as Burkina Faso, Bangladesh and Jamaica. When we look at the average of OECD countries, 24 out of every 100 people get speeds higher than 100 Mbps, while in Turkey only 1 in every 100 people It uses internet at speeds greater than 100 Mbps.
Government officials took action to solve the internet problem in our country and rolled up their sleeves to establish a common infrastructure. However, no official statement has been made on the subject yet.
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