TurkNet or by its legal name TurkNet İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. is a telecommunications company that offers internet access and telephone services to businesses and consumers in Turkey. As of the end of September 2015, TurkNet was the fourth-largest internet service provider in Turkey with 2.1% share of the internet service provider market, and 3.7% of the fixed-line telephone services market.[1]
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunication |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Website | http://www.turk.net |
In 2007, TurkNet received a $12.5 million investment from Novator, a private equity fund controlled by Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson and in May 2013, TurkNet received a loan worth EUR 9.5 million from the EBRD for a capital expansion program.[2] Subsequent growth brought the company a retail base of 180,000 retail customers and 25,000 business customers.[3]
Founded as Netone, the company purchased the TurkNet brand and assets from Sabancı Holding in February 2008.[4] Sabancı Holding had previously purchased Turk.Net from its founders in 1999.[5]
TurkNet has established its own devices with LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) into Turk Telekom stations, which provides significant saving in wholesale data costs. Thanks to this saving, in April 2017 TurkNet removed Fair Usage Quota (FUQ) from all customers in TurkNet's active infrastructure. In September 2017, TurkNet became the first operator to remove Fair Usage Quota for all its customers. TurkNet currently has LLU investments in more than 26 cities and in over 200 Turk Telekom stations.[6]
TurkNet currently has more than 350K residential customers, 25K SME customers and more than 2,500 enterprise customers.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Turkish ICTA market data report Q3 2015 (in Turkish)" (PDF). BTK. Dec 2015. Retrieved 1 Feb 2016.
- ^ "EBRD web site:Faster, cheaper internet access for more people in Turkey". EBRD. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 1 Feb 2016.
- ^ "Financial Times: Digital start-ups take root in Istanbul". Financial Times. 17 Dec 2015. Retrieved 1 Feb 2016.
- ^ "Netone purchases Turk.net". Hurriyet Daily News. 28 Feb 2008. Retrieved 1 Feb 2016.
- ^ "Sabanci Holding Milestones". Sabancı Holding. Retrieved 1 Feb 2016.
- ^ "About TurkNet". Turk.Net. 4 Mar 2018. Retrieved 4 Mar 2018.
- ^ "Türkiye Elektronik Haberleşme Sektörü Üç Aylık Pazar Verileri 2019 4. Çeyrek" (PDF). Türkiye Bilgi Teknolojileri Kurumu. 27 Apr 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
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