Short facts about communications in Turkey

Telephones - main lines in use:

19.5 million (1999)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

12.1 million (1999)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  undergoing rapid modernization and expansion, especially cellular telephones domestic:  additional digital exchanges are permitting a rapid increase in subscribers; the construction of a network of technologically advanced intercity trunk lines, using both fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay is facilitating communication between urban centers; remote areas are reached by a domestic satellite system; the number of subscribers to mobile cellular telephone service is growing rapidly international:  international service is provided by three submarine fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, linking Turkey with Italy, Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia, by 12 Intelsat earth stations, and by 328 mobile satellite terminals in the Inmarsat and Eutelsat systems

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 16, FM 72, shortwave 6 (1998)

Radios:

11.3 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

635 (plus 2,934 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions:

20.9 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.tr

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

22 (2000)

Internet users:

2 million (2000)

Source: World Factbook