ANALYSIS OF MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR IN TÜRKIYE ON THE EVE OF 5G TRANSITION

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2023-10

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Tözer, Ayhan

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In today’s global economic markets, countries compete based on knowledge and those that are more successful in terms of reaching, using and disseminating relevant knowledge will increase the well-being of their citizens. To this end, mobile broadband technologies such as 5G considered as one of the most important infrastructures of knowledge economy and lead to various transformations in both social and economic aspects. In this respect, the first part of the study covers the role and importance of mobile telecommunications technology (i.e., 5G and beyond) in the digital transformation process. Accordingly, specific features, costs & benefits of wide scale deployment and possible usage cases of this innovation are analyzed in detailed terms. Having studied these issues and regulatory policies, second part proceeds with the analysis of Türkiye’s telecommunications sector by adopting sectoral innovation system approach. The study aims to find (if any) fundamental systemic and structural problems that impede the effective functioning of this innovation system as the main research question. To this end, surveys and in-depth interviews are used to obtain experts’ views and thoughts about the current state of the sector. Important actors, their relations (interactions), main activities of them have been defined and weaknesses (bottlenecks) of the system have been identified to derive policy recommendations with the objective of increasing innovative performance of the sector. Main findings of this work point out the need for restructuring of regulatory framework in several aspects. Above all other considerations, the study regards improvement of good governance principles including transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness as a prerequisite for this restructuring process. The thesis also emphasizes the importance of not only adopting foreign technology but also increasing the level of innovative, productive capability of the domestic sector together with increasing adoption levels (i.e., reducing digital divide) for the preparation of digital transformation challenges in the new era.

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Mobile telecommunication technologies, 5G, innovation system frameworks, telecommunication service and equipment production sectors, regulatory authority, public policy.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105591

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis