The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for broadband internet, mostly because of remote working and online education. In Turkey, the number of fixed broadband subscribers has increased by more than half a million, and data usage increased dramatically during the first wave of the pandemic. Such increasing intensity of data usage, with additional subscribers, calls for a rethink of Turkey’s internet infrastructure. By considering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the December issue of Network Industries Quarterly – Turkey, I discuss the Turkish broadband market’s main issues.
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– Associate professor of economics at Bahçeşehir University
– Associate editor-in-chief of the journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries
– Teaches Managerial Economics at MBA, and Industrial Organization at undergraduate
– Designs and teaches specific courses, e.g. Platform Economics, Competition Policy in Digital Markets
– Publishes extensively on competition and regulatory issues in telecommunications, energy and platform industries
– Has experience in platform business models, network neutrality regulations and Internet usage
– Leads economic analysis on antitrust cases (in platform, electricity, banking, cement, petroleum and retail industries) and on regulatory issues (e.g. unbundling, net neutrality, OTT regulations)
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