Avea is the only GSM 1800 operator in Turkey. It has been founded in 2004 with the merger of the two GSM operators Aycell (Turk Telekom) and Aria (joint venture of Is Bankasi (51%) and Telecom Italia Mobile (49%)). TIM and Turk Telekom own 40% stake each and Is Bank Group holds 20%. Its competitors, Turkcell and Telsim, both use the GSM 900 standard and have been founded in 1994. The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... This article is about the musical term aria. ... TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) is Telecom Italias mobile phone subsidiary, and runs a GSM network in Italy (with a nearly 99% coverage), as well as in Greece, Turkey, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia In Europe, TIM is part of the FreeMove alliance. ... // Turkcell logo, an ant radiating radio waves Turkcell is a mobile phone operator in Turkey, currently the countrys largest. ... Telsim is a communication and telephone company in Turkey. ...

Coverage area

The merging of two GSM operators has resulted in the need of redesigning the network architecture to extend coverage and to solve the issues created by the network load. Avea has been able of terminating most of that process about one year after its creation, and currently covers a vast majority of Turkey's land area with more than 7000 base stations (A map can be found on The GSM World Web Page). Differently from Turkcell and Telsim, Avea doesn't have an extension in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and customers therefore roam on the KKTC Turkcell and KKTC Telsim networks. Base stations (or BSc) are low-power multi-channel two-way radios which are in a fixed location. ... // Turkcell logo, an ant radiating radio waves Turkcell is a mobile phone operator in Turkey, currently the countrys largest. ... Telsim is a communication and telephone company in Turkey. ... Official language Turkish Capital LefkoÅŸa (Nicosia) , Founder Rauf DenktaÅŸ President Mehmet Ali Talat Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer House Speaker Fatma EkenoÄŸlu Area  - Total  - % water 3,355 km² 2. ...

Being a merger of two networks, Avea suffers from the heteregeneity of roaming partners and customers with numbers beginning with 50 and 55 don't have the same list of roaming partners (see the list of roaming partners for 505 customers and the list of roaming partners for 555 customers for the different partners' lists). Avea also offers GPRS / EDGE / 3G roaming in multiple countries (see the list of GPRS roaming partners for 505 customers and the list of GPRS roaming partners for 555 customers).

Competitiveness

As the latest participant in the Turkish GSM sector, Aria, Aycell and Avea have been obliged to offer lower prices to attract a maximal number of customers. Consequently, Turkcell (the leader of the Turkish GSM market) has lowered down its intra-network call rates by a third after the creation of Aria, and divided by two all call rates when Avea has been launched. This article is about the musical term aria. ... // Turkcell logo, an ant radiating radio waves Turkcell is a mobile phone operator in Turkey, currently the countrys largest. ... This article is about the musical term aria. ...

Currently, customers pay between 0 and 0.35 New Turkish Liras per minute for national calls and between 0.32 and 2.1 New Turkish Liras per minute for international calls (for details, see The Avea Tariffs Web site); which roughly corresponds to respectively 0, 0.20, 0.19 and 1.1 euros per minute. The very common SMS service costs between 0 and 0.06 New Turkish Liras per SMS for national SMS messages, and 0.21 New Turkish Liras for international ones (which corresponds to 0, 0.03 and 0.12 euros) (you can see the Avea Service Tariffs Web Site for details). TRY banknotes and coins The new Turkish lira is the current currency of Turkey and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. ... The euro (plural euro, symbol: €; banking code: EUR) is the official currency of the European Union and single currency for over 300 million Europeans in the following twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain; collectively also known as... SMS arrival notification on a Siemens phone Short Message Service (SMS) is a service available on most digital mobile phones that permits the sending of short messages (also known as text messages, or more colloquially SMSes, texts or even txts) between mobile phones, other handheld devices and even landline telephones. ...

We can therefore see that the new participants had a positive effect for the users, and that the general call as well as service costs are lower than in most European countries.

References

• Avea's web site
• Turkcell
• Telsim
• GSM World