Turkey: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 11,493,057 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 14 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 73.639 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 93 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: comprehensive telecommunications network undergoing rapid modernization and expansion, especially in mobile-cellular services 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 bet international: country code - 90; international service is provided by the SEA-ME-WE-3 submarine cable and by submarine fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black Seas that link Turkey with Italy, Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia; satellite earth sta (2015) |
| Broadcast media | Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) operates multiple TV and radio networks and stations; multiple privately owned national television stations and up to 300 private regional and local television stations; multi-channel cable TV subscriptions a (2009) |
| Internet country code | .tr |
| Internet users | total: 42.681 million percent of population: 53.7% (July 2015 est.) |