Türkiye’s electronic communications investments hit a record 263 billion lira ($5.6 billion) in the first quarter, marking a 1,300% year-on-year surge driven by 5G auction fees and rollout, according to Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu.
Uraloğlu stated that the 5G network’s launch on 1 April, following the service auction in October 2025, saw nationwide subscriptions surpass 43 million, with operators expanding the fibre-optic networks by 12.8% to meet the demand for high-speed and low-latency connectivity.
He said Türkiye’s total fibre-optic cable length rose from 618,000 kilometres (384,007.4 miles) in the first quarter of 2025 to 697,000 kilometres (433,095.7 miles), adding that it was “enough to circle the Earth some 17 times.”
Türkiye’s overall broadband Internet subscriber base reached 99.5 million people with fibre subscriptions seeing a sector-leading growth of 29.2%.
Uraloğlu stated that the mobile market also remained strong with around 86 million individual subscribers and 12.3 million machine-to-machine connections.
He said mobile users generated around 71.8 billion minutes of total call traffic, compared to the 1.3 billion minutes on fixed networks.
Türkiye continued to record Europe's highest average monthly mobile call duration at 439 minutes per subscriber.
Uraloğlu added that market mobility remained strong with around 3.5 million mobile subscribers porting their phone numbers between GSM operators.
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