Turkey electronic communications investments reach 55.6 billion lira

Turkey's Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, announced significant growth in the country's electronic communications sector for the second quarter of 2026. Investments in the sector rose by 86.9% compared to the same period last year, reaching 55.6 billion lira.

Key subscriber metrics include a total of 102.2 million mobile subscribers and 100.8 million broadband internet subscribers. The number of machine-to-machine (M2M) subscriptions saw a notable increase of 36.4%, reaching 15.2 million. Excluding M2M and the population aged 0-9, the mobile penetration rate was recorded at 115.9%.

Uraloğlu also highlighted that Turkey leads European countries in average monthly mobile usage time, which stands at 468 minutes. During the second quarter of 2026, total mobile voice traffic reached 77.4 billion minutes, and approximately 2.8 million mobile number porting transactions were completed.