'More than 9.3 million households in Turkey don't have fixed internet connection'

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Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Onursal Adıgüzel released a statement on internet usage in Turkey, based on official figures.

According to the 2021 Household Information Technologies Survey by the Turkish Statistical Institution (TurkStat), 38.1 percent of the households in Turkey don't have a fixed internet connection.

In 2020, just over a half of the households had a fixed internet connection, according to the TurkStat.

"Although there has been an increase of more than 10 percent in fixed broadband internet connections in households due to the effect of the pandemic, the absence of a fixed internet connection in nearly 40 percent of the households is a sign that Turkey still cannot carry the internet from mobile to home," Adıgüzel said.

There are a total of 24.6 million households in Turkey, according to TurkStat's "Family Statistics 2020," so about 9.37 million households don't have a fixed internet connection, Adıgüzel noted.

"Moreover, according to the latest data, the fixed broadband prevalence rate according to the population is 20.4 percent in Turkey whereas the OECD average is 32.5 percent," said the MP.

"In our country, there was no internet, neither fixed nor mobile, in 1 million 968 thousand households in our country." (RT/VK)