Turk Telecom

Türk Telekomünikasyon A.Ş.

Type	Anonim şirket
Traded as	BİST: TTKOM
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1839; 176 years ago (as Postahane-i Amire) April 24, 1995; 21 years ago (current)
Headquarters	Ankara, Turkey
Key people	Mohammed Hariri (Chairman) Paul Doany (CEO)
Services	Fixed-line Telephony, Mobile Telephony, Internet, Digital Television, Wi-Fi
Revenue	14.522855 billion
Operating income	3.039488 billion
Net income	0.862850 billion
Total assets	25.773904 billion
Total equity	4.993368 billion
Number of employees	34,441
Parent	Oger Telecom (55%) Treasury of Turkey (30%)
Subsidiaries	Türk Telekom Türk Telekom International TTNet Avea Argela ALBtelecom Innova AssisTT Sebit LLC Pantel Sobee Studios
Website	http://www.turktelekom.com.tr

1839; 176 years ago (as Postahane-i Amire)

Türk Telekom is the formerly state-owned Turkish telecommunications company. Türk Telekom was separated from Turkish Post (PTT) in 1995. In November 2005, it was privatized to Oger Telecom.

Türk Telekom Group provides integrated telecommunication services from PSTN, GSM to wide-band Internet. The Türk Telekom Group companies had 16.8 million PSTN customers, 6 million ADSL customers and 12.1 million GSM customers as of September 30, 2009. With its network substructure covering the whole country, the group's companies offer a wide range of services to personal and corporate customers. Türk Telekom, which owns 99.9% of the shares of the companies TTNET, Argela, Innova, Sebit A.Ş. and AssisTT, is also the owner of 81% of the shares of Avea, which is one of the three GSM operators in Turkey. Türk Telekom also supports Albania's Albtelecom. 55% of the shares of Turk Telekom belongs to Oger Telekomünikasyon A.Ş. and 30% of the shares belongs to Turkey's Undersecretariat of Treasury. The remaining 15% of shares has been offered to the public.

The company holds the naming rights to Türk Telekom Arena, home to the Galatasaray S.K.

TTNET is Turkey's leading Internet service provider and the only company to offer so-called "quadruple play" services (i.e., Internet, TV, voice, and 3G in one). The 2013 Annual Report states that TTNET has 6.3 million subscribers, 620,000 fiber subscribers, and 1.8 million TV subscribers.

It provides ADSL, dial-up, Wi-Fi, G.SHDSL, ATM, frame relay, and Metro Ethernet Internet access services to corporate and personal customers in 81 cities in Turkey. TTNET became the first Turkish company to be accepted into the United Nations' "Business Call to Action (BCtA)" program, which seeks to encourage companies to "develop inclusive business models that offer the potential for both commercial success and development impact", for its "Internet 4All initiative".