Telephones - main lines in use: 19,125,200 (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 34,707,500 (2004)
Telephone system: general assessment: undergoing rapid modernization and expansion, especially with 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: country code - 90; 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; also by 12 Intelsat earth stations, and by 328 mobile satellite terminals in the
Inmarsat and Eutelsat systems (2002)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 16, FM 107, shortwave 6 (2001)
Television broadcast stations: 635 (plus 2,934 repeaters) (1995)
Internet country code: .tr
Internet hosts: 753,394 (2005) Internet users: 5.5 million (2003)