Information and Communication Technologies Authority of the Republic of Turkey (ICTA)zgr Fatih AKPINARofakpinar@btk.gov.trNRAS ROLE TO ENSURE COMPETITIVE MOBILE MARKET-TURKISH CASE-

Outline

1. NRAs Role: Regulations2. Current Situation in Mobile Market3. Conclusion

NRAs Role: Regulations

NRAs Role

Ensure Competitive Mobile MarketOff-net traffic should be increaseCall termination rate should be cost orientedRetail margin between on-net and off-net price should be narrowed. Ensure Easy Switching MethodsTarget to Increase Traffic Volume

REGULATIONS

1. Regulation: Upper Limit for Retail Mobile Tariffs2. Regulation: Mobile Interconnection Regulations3. Regulation: The Board Decisions dated 25.03.2009 and numbered 2009/DK-07/149 & 21.10.2010 and 2010/706.4. Regulation: Mobile Number Portability

1. Upper Limit for Retail Mobile TariffsAim;Obviating pirce-based exploitative abuses as well as alleviation of network effect by preventing the GSM operators to set high margin between the off-net and on-net tariffs (Including PSTN calls)

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2. Mobile Interconnection Rates (euro cents)1 Turkish Kurus = 0.47 -Cent

Mobile call termination rates in EU

Euro cent

3. Specific Board Decisions (2009/DK-07/149 and 2010/706.)Mechanism; This Board Decision requires the SMP operator in mobile access and call originitaion market (Turkcell) to ensure its accrued on-net tariffs are not below its off-net call termination fee.

Aim;Preventing SMP operator to abuse its position through network externality.

Specific Board Decisions (2009/DK-07/149)*

Specific Board Decisions (2009/DK-07/149)*

4. Mobile Number Portability RegulationAim;Ensuring a more competitive environment by increasing the flexibilies of the consumers in changing their operators.

Mobil number portability has been used since 9 November 2008.

Mobile Number Portability (MNP)

Current Situation in Mobile Market

Total call traffic volumes

*Traffic volumes by call origination (%)

Off-net traffic volume is increasing

Off-Net mobile volume (mil. minutes)

CountriesMoU (minutes)France248,8Irland248,7Turkey239,4UK179,7Spain158,2Italy137,8Portugal129,8Germany110,4

Mobile Messaging Services

EFFECTS OF THE ACTIONS

The change in market shares of the mobile operatorsAccording to revenue of the operators

Effectiveness should not be ignored as well as competition.Cost oriented call termination rate has vital importance for competition.Hesitation of decreasing about tax revenue is in vain.(Although call termination rate has been decreased almost %300, off-net traffic volume has increased almost %400)Effective MNP is also important tools for competition.

Thank youzgr Fatih AKPINARofakpinar@btk.gov.tr

*Distinguished Participants,It is a great privilege and honour for me to address such a distinguished audience here about NRAs Role.During my presentation, I will give some information about Communications sector of Turkey and I will discuss the importance of ICT in transportation. At this point I will mention about our main projects. ***ngilizce ve renkli bir eyler koyalm.*Mobile interconnection rates have decreased also. Turkcell, which is the biggest mobile operators, has interconnection rate of 3.13 kurus which was 15.6 in 2004. Mobile interconnection rates in Turkey are one of the lowest among the EU countries.

*Mobile number portability has begun on November 9, 2008. In a very short period of time, the numbers ported has increased a lot and exceeded 25 million by February 201.

***Sadece mobil trafii koyalm.***Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you very much for listening me patiently.