Turk Telekom is the main sponsor of Marketingist, the most comprehensive marketing fair of Europe.
The Türk Telekom Family continues to support the sports and the sportsmen/sportswomen in Turkey and reconstructures the sponsorships for supporting the sports together with its group companies. Within the scope of these sponsorships, Türk Telekom and Avea’s support for four major football teams is targeted. The first step of the strategy has been taken by Türk Telekom becoming a sponsor for Galatasaray as from the 2009-2010 season.
The “Turk Telekom Photo-Journalists Basketball Photography Contest”, which had been initiated by Turk Telekom for the photo-journalists in order to eternalize the excitement of basketball through photograph frames, has been completed. Halil Ozkan from Yeni Safak Newspaper has won the first place.
Offering VDSL2 technology to the service of Turkish users, Türk Telekom is proud of bringing Turkey to the position of being one of the first countries that use this technology in Europe and the world.
Türk Telekom has always been the major communication network in Turkey since 1840.
Turkey met with GSM technology. GSM which knows no limit in communication was put into service firstly for its subscribers in Ankara, İstanbul and İzmir.
By separating the telecommunication and Postal services in PTT from each other, Türk Telekomünikasyon A.Ş. was founded.
GSM network was transfered to the firms Turkcell and Telsim for 25 years by giving licence.
ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) was put into service in order to provide high speed voice and image communication on
Cable Internet applications were started on Cable TV.
Aycell Haberlesme ve Pazarlama Hizmetleri A.S. was founded.
Iş-TIM Telekomünikasyon Services Inc. started to operate with the commercial name of ARIA
TT&TIM Communication Services Inc., establihed by the merger of Turk Telekom’s GSM Operator Aycell and İŞ-TİM, was officially founded.
The commercial name of “TT&TIM Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.” was changed as “Avea Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.”
Türksat A.Ş. was established and started operating apart from Türk Telekom.
Türk Telekom’s privatization process was completed and %55 shares of Turk Telekom was sold to Oger Telecoms Joint Venture Group.
Türk Telekom acquired İŞ-TİM’s 40.56% share in Avea for USD 500 million and Turk Telekom’s share in Avea increased to 81.12%.
The initial public offering for 15% of Turk Telekom shares was completed and the shares started trading in the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
