Cobertura de Turquía

Qué significan las cifras de Turquía

Importan dos números y solo uno es el que cita todo el mundo. La velocidad habitual, 57 Mbps, te dice cómo es un buen momento.

El percentil diez, 16 Mbps, es el que conviene leer. Es la velocidad en la peor décima parte del día, cuando la antena de encima de la estación está llena y todos los que te rodean están en ella. Un país con mediana alta y suelo bajo es un país que funciona de maravilla hasta el momento en que de verdad lo necesitas.

Si el viaje depende de videollamadas o de compartir conexión, planifica con la cifra de hora punta y no con la habitual.

Qué pasa en Turquía cuando la red se satura

La congestión no es una avería, es un martes por la tarde. La pregunta es qué puede hacer tu eSIM al respecto, y en la mayoría de las eSIM de viaje la respuesta es nada: un acuerdo mayorista por país, una red y ninguna salida salvo comprar una segunda eSIM a otro mientras estás de pie en la calle.

Aquí el tráfico de Orbislo va por Turkcell y Vodafone. Cuando la red en la que estás se degrada te movemos a otra, en mitad del viaje, sin que lo pidas, y te lo contamos después en lugar de interrumpirte en ese momento.

Operadores móviles en Turquía

• Turkcell: Turkcell held 39.2 percent of Turkish mobile subscribers at the end of 2025, according to regulator data, down from 41.2 percent a year earlier, and 39.8 percent of mobile revenue.
• Turk Telekom: TT Mobil, the mobile arm of Turk Telekom, held 31.6 percent of subscribers at the end of 2025, up from 29 percent, but only 24.3 percent of mobile revenue. It carried 70.7 percent of the country's SMS traffic.
• Vodafone: Vodafone Turkey held 29.2 percent of subscribers at the end of 2025, down from 30.4 percent, and 35.9 percent of mobile revenue.
• Turkcell: Turkcell's mobile subscriber base passed 40 million for the first time in the second quarter of 2026, with 243,000 net additions in the quarter.

Redes antiguas en Turquía

• 3G still had 6.4 million subscribers in Turkey at the end of 2025. The service began in July 2009 and peaked at 65.9 million subscribers at the end of March 2016, just before 4.5G arrived.
• 4G, branded 4.5G, has run since 1 April 2016 and counted 91.2 million subscribers at the end of 2025. Only 77.4 million could use it, because the rest had a device or SIM card that does not support it.

El 5G en Turquía

• BTK auctioned 400 MHz of spectrum in the 700 MHz and 3.5 GHz bands on 16 October 2025, split into 11 packages. All 11 sold for 2.945 billion US dollars, or 3.534 billion including VAT.
• Turkcell took five packages for 1.224 billion dollars, Turk Telekom four for 1.094 billion and Vodafone two for 627 million.
• BTK set 1 April 2026 as the start of 5G service nationwide, with no change to existing tariffs. The licences run until 31 December 2042, and from 2029 to 2042 operators must put 5 percent of revenue into infrastructure each year.
• The licence terms raise the required share of domestically made network equipment from 45 percent in the 4.5G era to 60 percent, and require products whose rights belong wholly to Turkish firms, at 15 percent in the first stage and at least 30 percent overall, subject to availability.
• 5G was set to open in all 81 provincial centres first, with nationwide coverage targeted within two years. Just before launch, about 32 million of Turkey's roughly 95 million mobile phones were 5G compatible.

Notas sobre la red en Turquía

• Turkey had 99.7 million mobile subscriptions at the end of 2025, a penetration of 115.8 percent, including about 11.9 million machine-to-machine lines.
• Turkey's 4G licences, auctioned in Ankara on 26 August 2015 with Turkcell, Vodafone and Avea bidding, run until 30 April 2029. Operators were allowed to start 4.5G service from 1 April 2016.
• More than 17.8 million mobile numbers were ported between operators in 2025, bringing the total since number portability began to 207.8 million by 31 December 2025.
• Average mobile use in the last quarter of 2025 was 466 minutes a month, the highest among the European countries in the regulator's comparison, and mobile broadband users averaged 20.6 GB of data a month.