September 21, 2017
The second edition of the “Quarterly Market Data Report” containing developments in the electronic communications sector in 2017 has been published.
The President of the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK), Dr. Ömer Fatih Sayan, made evaluations regarding the “Turkey Electronic Communications Sector 3-Monthly Market Data Report” for the second quarter of 2017 prepared by BTK.
INTERNET SUBSCRIBER NUMBER INCREASED 11-FOLD IN 9 YEARS
Stating that citizens were in the squares on the anniversary of the coup attempt, just like last year during the treacherous coup attempt on July 15, Sayan said, “We filled the squares with our citizens again and declared to the world that we will never give up our democracy and independence. On this occasion, I wish mercy from Allah to those who were martyred while standing up for our country on that dark night, and health and well-being to our veterans.”
Noting that BTK celebrated its 17th anniversary on August 15 with a ceremony attended by guests from the public and private sectors as well as institution employees, Sayan stated, “When we look at the stage our country has reached in the field of communications and information technologies, we proudly take pride in contributing to this development as an institution.”
Sayan made the following evaluations regarding the developments in our electronic communications sector during April-May-June of 2017:
59.9 MILLION CITIZENS SWITCHED TO 4.5G SERVICE
As of the end of the second quarter of 2017, approximately 59.9 million citizens switched to 4.5G service subscriptions, which began to be used in our country on April 1, 2016. However, due to some citizens' devices or SIM cards not being compatible with 4.5G service, the number of those actively using this service reached approximately 24.9 million as of the end of June. While the average monthly usage of mobile broadband internet subscribers was at 3 GB level, the data usage of 4.5G subscribers whose devices and SIM cards are compatible with 4.5G service was 6.3 GB monthly.
SUBSCRIBER NUMBER IN MOBILE SERVICES REACHED 76.6 MILLION
During this period, alongside approximately 11 million fixed subscribers, the number of mobile service subscribers reached 76.6 million, and the penetration rate reached 96%. When machine-to-machine (M2M) subscriber numbers and the population aged 0-9 are excluded, the mobile penetration rate reached 108.2%.
In the second quarter of 2017, total mobile traffic was 63.84 billion minutes, while fixed traffic was approximately 1.91 billion minutes. Compared to the previous three-month period, mobile traffic increased by 6.5%, while fixed traffic decreased by approximately 9%. The majority of traffic (93.2%) consisted of mobile-to-mobile traffic.
WE ARE AGAIN LEADER IN MOBILE USAGE DURATION
In the second quarter of 2017, with an average monthly mobile usage duration of 441 minutes, Turkey ranked first among the European countries that could be examined, as in the previous period. During this period, 2.72 million subscribers ported their numbers. Thus, the total number of ported numbers to date exceeded 106.5 million.
In the second quarter of 2017, total mobile internet usage reached 481,862 TB, and M2M subscriber numbers reached 4.2 million. Looking at the usage of mobile computer internet subscribers, the ratio of subscribers with monthly usage over 100 MB was 74.9%, while the monthly ratio for mobile handheld internet subscribers using over 100 MB of data was 76.5%.
REACHED 66.4 MILLION BROADBAND INTERNET SUBSCRIBERS
Looking at broadband data, total broadband internet subscribers reached 66.4 million, consisting of 11.1 million fixed subscribers and 55.3 million mobile subscribers, marking a 20.1% increase compared to the same period of the previous year. Thus, broadband internet subscribers, which were around 6 million in 2008, increased 11-fold to 66.4 million as of the end of the second quarter of 2017.
The highest increase was in Fiber to the Home subscribers with approximately 28.3%, followed by Mobile Handheld Internet with approximately 23.3%. xDSL subscriber numbers exceeded 8.1 million, while fiber subscribers approached 2.1 million. The average monthly data usage of broadband internet subscribers was at 76.5 GB level.
RANKING BY SUBSCRIBER NUMBER DID NOT CHANGE
As of the second three-month period of 2017, Turkcell had 44.6%, Vodafone 30.9%, and Avea 24.5% market share by subscriber number. It was determined that 54.1% of Avea subscribers, 53.2% of Turkcell subscribers, and 51% of Vodafone subscribers were postpaid. The most called short number from Avea, Vodafone, and Turkcell lines was 182 (Hospital Appointment).
When examining market shares by revenue as of the second quarter of 2017, Turkcell had 40.4%, Vodafone 36.6%, and Avea 23% market share. Average revenue per subscriber monthly was 28.5 TL for Turkcell, 28.2 TL for Vodafone, and 27.9 TL for Avea.
FIXED TELEPHONE DATA FELL 6.3% COMPARED TO LAST YEAR
As of the second three-month period of 2017, Türk Telekom's fixed telephone revenues were approximately 708 million TL, decreasing by 6.3% compared to the same period of the previous year and by 0.7% compared to the previous three-month period. Examining Türk Telekom's traffic distribution, the share of on-net traffic, which was 62.2% of total traffic in the same period of the previous year, realized at 56.9% in the second three-month period of 2017. Meanwhile, the traffic to mobile, which constituted 30.8% of total traffic in the same period of the previous year, increased to 34.5% of total traffic in the second quarter of 2017.
In the second quarter of 2017, the most called short number from the Türk Telekom network was 182 (Hospital Appointment), and the country with the most traffic sent and received from the fixed network was Germany. Türk Telekom's average revenue per subscriber monthly was 24.78 TL.
27 THOUSAND KM MORE FIBER LAID
More than 27 thousand km of fiber cable was laid compared to the same period of the previous year. Fiber length, which was 277,758 km in the same period of the previous year, reached 304,530 km in the second quarter of 2017, marking an increase of over 9.6%.
MOST “.COM.TR” REGISTERED AMONG “.TR” DOMAIN NAMES
As of this period, there are 387,277 “.tr” domain names in “Nic.tr” records. Of these domain names, 80.2% are “com.tr”, 5.2% “gen.tr”, 3.5% “gov.tr”, and 2.7% “org.tr”. 80.4% of the websites using these domain names are hosted in Turkey, 9% in the USA, 4.6% in Germany, 1.9% in France, 1.5% in the Netherlands, 1% in the UK, and 1.7% in other countries.
Finally, BTK President Sayan wished for the second half of 2017 to be productive for the entire sector and our country.