{"id":958773,"date":"2025-09-02T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958773"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:59:17","slug":"turkey-to-hold-5g-tender-on-october-16-service-to-be-available-in-april-2026-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/02\/turkey-to-hold-5g-tender-on-october-16-service-to-be-available-in-april-2026-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to hold 5G tender on October 16, service to be available in April 2026, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: Turkey will launch a long-awaited 5G frequency tender on October 16, and mobile operators will start providing 5G services in April 2026, the transport and infrastructure minister said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile operators currently holding GSM and 4.5G licences can participate, Abdulkadir Uraloglu said in a statement, meaning government-controlled Turkcell and Turk Telekom along with Vodafone&#8217;s Turkish unit can all take part. &#8220;We will hold the 5G tender on Oct. 16 and our mobile operators will start offering 5G services as of April 1, 2026,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: Turkey will launch a long-awaited 5G frequency tender on October 16, and mobile operators will start providing 5G services in April 2026, the transport and infrastructure minister said on Sunday. Mobile operators currently holding GSM and 4.5G licences can participate, Abdulkadir Uraloglu said in a statement, meaning government-controlled Turkcell and Turk Telekom along with Vodafone&#8217;s Turkish unit can all take part. &#8220;We will hold the 5G tender on Oct. 16 and our mobile operators will start offering 5G services as of April 1, 2026,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}