Liberalization Efforts Continue In The Telecommunications Market

The Telecommunications Authority ("Authority") continues to introduce new authorizations/licenses to further liberalize the telecommunications market in Turkey. In addition to the below listed services recently authorized, the Authority issued -on its website- a new draft authorization for public opinion concerning the provision of "Terrestrial Digital Platform Services", which is defined as the ‘operation of terrestrial digital platform network/infrastructure and the single/dual communication of any voice, data, image and encrypted/unencrypted radio/television signals over such network through the channels exclusively allocated to broadcast over the said network’. Once this authorization is available, it will revolutionize the way to access multimedia services and contribute to further convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting services, while enhancing competition in the broadband market.