Competencies of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority in Turkish Telecommunication Sector

Over the last two decades, the telecom industry has shown an incredible growth and has considerably changed the way people interrelate. Providing the infrastructure for information society, telecommunication sector has become a strategic sector worldwide in a short while. Due to the rapid and constant advancements in technology and current economic circumstances, public sectors have begun to fall short in maintaining telecommunication services and in development of the sector.

As a result of such development in a global context, there is a growing tendency in the world towards abolishing monopolist and state-controlled structure of telecommunication community and open up the market to the free competition of private sector, because governments aim to have a stronger telecommunications sector which will provide the maximum benefit. On the other hand, states face the pressing need of adjusting their institutions and legislations accordingly, in order to keep up with the