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Türkiye recorded 81.8 billion minutes of calls from mobile and fixed lines in the second quarter of 2025, making it the European leader in mobile phone call duration, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said Thursday.
“With an average monthly mobile usage time of 493 minutes, Türkiye became the country with the highest mobile phone call duration among European nations,” Uraloglu said, citing data from the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK).
Uraloglu noted that as of the end of June, there were 405 operators active in Türkiye’s electronic communications sector.
“The total number of authorizations granted to these operators is 751. In terms of authorization numbers, these operators are primarily engaged in Internet service provision, infrastructure operation, and fixed telephone services,” he said.
In the April–June period, fixed-line subscribers reached 8.8 million, while mobile subscribers totaled about 96.5 million. Of these, 81.4% were individual users and 18.6% corporate.
“In the second quarter of 2025, a total of 81.8 billion minutes of calls were made from mobile and fixed lines. This corresponds to 155,000 years of uninterrupted conversation,” Uraloglu said.
Compared with the previous quarter, mobile traffic rose 8.8%, and fixed-line traffic increased 5.8%. Mobile-to-mobile communication accounted for 95.8% of total traffic, he added.
Uraloglu said broadband internet subscriptions reached 97.4 million in total—including 20.7 million fixed and 76.6 million mobile subscribers.
“Compared with the same period last year, the total number of internet subscribers increased by 1.9%. The highest growth rate was seen in ‘Wireless Radio Internet (Fixed)’ subscriptions at 36.6%, followed by ‘Fiber to the Home’ at 24%,” he said.
Türkiye’s fiber infrastructure also continued to expand, reaching 637,000 kilometers by the second quarter of 2025—up from 577,000 kilometers a year earlier, marking a 10.6% increase, Uraloglu added.
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