According to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure's 2026 performance program, efforts to expand mobile communication services in rural areas continue.
The study, conducted by the General Directorate of Communications and the Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK), identified 1,800 rural settlements registered in the Turkish Statistical Institute database, with fewer than 500 inhabitants and where no mobile operator has previously provided mobile service.
In Türkiye, where mobile phone coverage is over 99 percent of the population, some villages still do not have mobile phone services due to geographical difficulties and high infrastructure costs. To eliminate this situation, a project has been prepared to provide mobile communication services in these places, the cost of which will be fully covered by the Universal Service Fund.
As part of the universal service application, based on the analysis of the locations identified for the construction of mobile communications infrastructure and citizens' requests at the end of last year, 3 thousand 691 settlements without mobile service were included. The aim is to increase the number of affected settlements to 3,905 by the end of this year. This means that 214 more settlements in Turkey will be able to say “hello” via mobile phone this year.
Universal Postal Services
It is also aimed at expanding postal service in the provinces with metropolitan status, in places that lie within the district municipal boundaries and do not have integrity with the district in which the district headquarters is located in terms of settlement characteristics, and in non-metropolitan provinces in places outside the boundaries of the provincial and district municipalities.
While the number of settlements benefiting from the universal postal service was 37,000,706 at the end of last year, this number is expected to increase to 37,826 by the end of this year.
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