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TURKEY: A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

TURKEY: A DEVELOPING COUNTRY. Nur Zincir-Heywood zincir@cs.dal.ca. Current Case. 2 national backbones academic commercial 4 international links 3000 host in March 1995, 37327 hosts in June 1998 and 85000 hosts in June 2000 estimated number of users 1000000. Turkey. Map

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TURKEY: A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

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  1. TURKEY: A DEVELOPING COUNTRY Nur Zincir-Heywood zincir@cs.dal.ca

  2. Current Case • 2 national backbones • academic • commercial • 4 international links • 3000 host in March 1995, 37327 hosts in June 1998 and 85000 hosts in June 2000 • estimated number of users 1000000

  3. Turkey • Map • Data about the Internet usage in Turkey • kursat • ilker • ours

  4. Problems • Economic problems • Telco monopoly • Reselling • Lack of regulatory body • Social and cultural issues

  5. Economic • not enough money for • lines • personnel • equipment • true for academic backbone (state)

  6. Telco Monopoly • No real infrastructure • No real motivation to give better service • No reselling is allowed • true for both academic and commercial

  7. Reselling • A problem for commercial nw • Telco do not like it • no market at the beginning • attracting customers

  8. Regulations • No regulatory body • different state offices have power to do different things • but do not have responsibility • both for academia and commercial

  9. Social and cultural issues • for most people even accessing basic life facilities is a problem • language / contents • no training • expensive service for an ordinary dial-up user (pc + ISP fee + phone bill) • training people • both academic and commercial

  10. 5 years later... • one backbone • educational backbone will diminish • severe security and operations management problems • more business on the net • increase in the number of ISPs • increase in the usage • mobile phone networks will carry more internet traffic

  11. What do we need?

  12. Economical • Growth • consistency

  13. Regulatory body • that has power and budget • representatives from the government, the industry, the academia

  14. Law • About security issues • electronic crime • copyright issues • all e-commerce oriented issues

  15. Telecommunication carrier • privatization in telco, • many carriers • peering between them • load sharing etc.

  16. Usage of IT • in business • in state offices • in education • security issues • operations management issues

  17. Training • Users • technical people • informing people about the benefits of Internet

  18. For more users • More Internet cafes • Good marketing • Lower fees

  19. Content • Turkish • more information about the state services • better designed home pages

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