Turkey's digital infrastructure continues to expand at a remarkable pace, according to second-quarter 2026 market figures from the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), shared by Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu. The headline number: broadband internet subscriptions have now reached 100 million 846 thousand 626.

The mobile side tells a similar story. Including machine-to-machine (M2M) lines, mobile subscriptions climbed to 102.2 million. The sector currently hosts 418 authorized operators, with a total of 766 authorizations in force.

A man in a blue blazer stands in a network operations center in front of large monitoring screens showing dashboards, charts and world maps.
A network operations center screen displays monitoring dashboards as Turkey's broadband subscribers pass 100.8 million.

Investment volume nearly doubled

Among the most striking figures is capital spending. Sector operators poured 55.6 billion TL into the market this quarter — an 86.9% increase compared with the same period last year.

On an annual basis, mobile subscriptions grew 6%, rising from 96.5 million to 102.2 million. Excluding M2M lines, the number of actual users stands at roughly 87 million. That puts mobile penetration at 101%, and once the 0-9 age group and M2M lines are excluded, the figure rises to 115.9%. M2M subscriptions themselves grew 36.4% to reach 15.2 million.

Turkey also remains at the top of the European league table for mobile voice usage, with an average of 468 minutes of mobile calls per month. Over the quarter, mobile voice traffic totaled 77.4 billion minutes, while fixed voice traffic came in at 1.3 billion minutes. Number porting history is notable too: the total number of mobile numbers ported to date has approached 214.1 million.

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Fiber reaches 10.7 million subscribers and 720 thousand kilometers

Of the broadband total, 79.7 million subscribers are on mobile connections and 21.2 million on fixed lines. The payoff from fiber investment is visible in the numbers: fiber subscriptions rose 22% to 10.7 million, while fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscriptions climbed 26.4% to 9.6 million.

Fiber line length has reached 720 thousand kilometers, a growth rate of 13%. Legacy technologies present a different picture: xDSL subscriptions stand at 8 million, while cable internet sits at around 1.5 million.

5G users surpass 44 million

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The user base for the new-generation network keeps widening. Real 5G users have climbed above 44 million 268 thousand, while the number of 5G-compatible devices has passed 29 million 777 thousand.

That density is reflected in data traffic. Total broadband data traffic rose 16.5% to reach 26.2 million TBytes. Mobile internet traffic jumped 39.9% to 5.6 million TBytes, while fixed internet traffic grew 11.4% to 20.6 million TBytes.

The fixed network's subscriber count was put at 8.13 million. Internationally, the heaviest fixed-line traffic goes to the United Kingdom, while the country sending the most calls to Turkey is the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).