Evrensel Hizmetin Finansmanı ve Türkiye Örneğinin Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

The concept of universal service that arose in the early years of the nineteenth century, has appeared as a Notion equilavent to the public service in this area as a result of liberalization of the telecommunication which has contınued rapidly after 1980s around the world. The concept of universal service and the importance of its implementations in the areas such as improvement in the Information and Communication Technology(ICT), resolution of digital divide and increasing the economic productivity cannot be ignored for the world in general and for Turkey in particular. The aim of this work is to determine in what way the law of universal service enacted in 2005 with law no 5369 just before the customization of Turk Telekom has been used as a mean of public policy since it came into force and to determine in what point our country stand in the matter of providing universal service comparing with implementations in other countries.