Bringing the world’s fastest Internet to Turkey simultaneously with the rollouts in other countries, Turkcell Superonline carries on investing at an unabated rate in order to turn the “Silk Road” into a “Fiber Road” by expanding its own infrastructure across Turkey with a fiber network stretching to every corner of the country.
Turkcell, of which Turkcell Superonline is a subsidiary, is the first company started the GSM-based mobile communication in Turkey and commenced operations in February 1994. Turkcell then signed a 25-year GSM license contract with the Ministry of Transportation on April 27, 1998. Since then, it has continuously increased the variety of its services based on mobile voice and data communication, as well as on its quality levels, and as a result, its number of subscribers.
Turkcell's shares have been traded on the Borsa Istanbul (BIST) and New York Stock Exchanges (NYSE) since July 11, 2000, and it is the only Turkish company to be listed on the latter exchange. Turkcell is also quoted on the Borsa Istanbul Sustainability Index.
Turkcell Superonline holds all the necessary authorizations listed below, granted by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICT) to act as a telecom operator:
- Internet Service Provider
- Infrastructure Operation Services
- Fixed Telephony Services
- Satellite Communication Services
- Wired Broadcasting Service
Today, Turkcell Superonline has 64.000 km of fiber backbone covering 81 major cities of Turkey. With this strong infrastructure and the next generation network designed over this infrastructure as well as its experienced personnel enables Turkcell Superonline to deliver high quality solutions to telecom operators multinational and national private corporations and the governmental institutions.
The new multi-layer network structure increases the quality of all services offered by Turkcell Superonline to a level of quality unmatched in Turkish market and enables it to meet the communication needs of all its business partners in the region. Turkcell Superonline continues to invest rapidly in its own fiber optic infrastructure to build its own dedicated transmission and IP backbones.
Turkcell Superonline, which continues to work with the vision of "turning the Silk Road into the Fiber Road", cooperates with more than 150 international operators and is taking important steps to make Istanbul the capital of the internet. As a result of its extensive network infrastructure and cooperation with Tier 1 operators, Turkcell Superonline acts as a bridge, enabling its wholesale customers to reach from the East to the West without interruption and at the speed of light.
