Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Dr. Ömer Fatih Sayan shared some data on the Market Data Report prepared by the Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) for the second quarter of 2021. “Our National Broadband Strategy and Action Plan is bearing fruit,” said Deputy Minister Sayan, adding that the number of broadband internet subscribers in Turkey reached 85.7 million. This statistic reveals that the number of broadband internet users increased by 2.1 percent compared to the previous quarter and by 9.3 percent compared to the same period of the previous year.
According to the statements made by Ömer Fatih Sayan, 11.3 million of these 85.7 million subscribers are xDSL subscribers. While the number of subscribers who have the luxury of using fiber internet was announced as 4.3 million, the number of cable internet subscribers was recorded as 1.3 million. According to the ICTA’s Market Data Report, the total revenue of the internet service provider sector has reached the level of 3.7 billion TL.
Average monthly usage reached 211GB
BTK’s Market Data Report also sheds light on consumers’ internet usage statistics. According to Ömer Fatih Sayan’s post on the subject, the average monthly usage amount of broadband internet subscribers has reached 211 GB. Mobile broadband internet subscribers, on the other hand, used an average of 10.5 GB of data per month, while 4.5G subscribers spent 12 GB.
Another important issue in Ömer Fatih Sayan’s posts was about the registration of domain names. Sayan, made in the second quarter of 2021. 84,3 percent of domain name registrations with tr extension . com. tr, 2.8 percent of . gene. tr, 2.8 percent of . organ. tr and 2,5 percent of it’s percent. hunting. announced that it has the tr extension. In addition, during the second quarter, 5 million 755 thousand 987 electronic certificates were created and 5 million 31 thousand 726 of them were electronic signatures. . .