Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu said, “In 2023, we aim to provide broadband access to all households at a speed of at least 100 Mbit/second by acting with the principle of ‘broadband to everyone from anywhere’.” said.
In his speech at the opening of the Public Informatics Digital Summit organized digitally by the Public Informatics Association, Karaismailoğlu said that the public digital transformation, possibilities and capabilities of the states trying to meet the increasing need for internet access in this period were also tested.
Pointing out that the use of information and communication infrastructures has increased in the fight against the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic, Karaismailoğlu noted that many sectors, especially banking and communication, are working from home, and educational institutions are meeting with students through distance education platforms.
Karaismailoğlu emphasized that the interest in e-commerce sites has increased and said, “In the business world, meetings take place through video or audio teleconference applications. While this situation increases the need for information and communication technologies, it also brings security problems.” he said.
“The number of mobile subscribers reached 83 million”
Sharing the information that the size of the information and communication technologies sector was 20 billion liras in 2003, it has reached 132 billion liras today, Karaismailoğlu continued as follows:
“The growth rate of the sector in 2019 was 13 percent. Our fiber line length exceeded 371 thousand kilometers. The number of fixed broadband subscribers exceeded 14 million. The number of fiber subscribers in fixed infrastructures approached 3.1 million. More than 85 percent of the number of mobile subscribers reached 83 million started using 4.5G service in the last three years. The number of broadband subscribers exceeded 77 million. The number of machine-to-machine communication subscribers reached 5.7 million. The average tariff fee of our mobile operators, which was 11.7 cents per minute about 10 years ago, has decreased to 1.5 cents today. .”
Reminding that the National Broadband Strategy and Action Plan was published two years ago in order to spread high speed and capacity broadband infrastructures throughout the country, Karaismailoğlu said, “In 2023, we will act with the principle of broadband from everywhere to everyone and provide broadband access to all households at a speed of at least 100 Mbit/second.” We aim.” said.
Stating that they want to reach 10 million fiber subscribers by increasing the subscriber density to 100 percent, Karaismailoğlu noted that they have taken steps to shorten the infrastructure installation processes and facilitate field installations with the regulations in the electronic communications sector.
“Thanks to domestic and national production opportunities, the epidemic is being fought more effectively.”
Karaismailoğlu emphasized that during the epidemic period, when the external supply process became difficult, the epidemic was fought more effectively thanks to domestic and national production opportunities in many areas, and said that the importance of the End-to-End Local and National Communication Network, whose work was started in this context, increased even more.
Pointing out that thanks to the project, they will contribute to domestic production and start a multi-stakeholder project with the participation of SMEs, Karaismailoğlu said, “We have created cyber incident response teams in our critical institutions and organizations in all sectors, from defense to communication, from health to energy, from finance to education. I believe that in the coming period, Turkey will “We will see it among the world’s leading countries in information and communication technologies.” made an evaluation.
Karaismailoğlu pointed out that information and communication are present in every aspect of life and are increasing their presence day by day, and warned that the sharing of information and knowledge will be effective in the tensions and wars that will occur in the world in the coming period.
Source: https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/bilim-teknoloji/bakan-karaismailoglu-2023te-tum-hanelere-genisbant-erisimi-saglamayi-amacyiz/1847210
