ANKARA: Turkey’s mobile phone imports, including smartphones, increased by 26 percent in the first quarter, the Communication Authority said on Tuesday.
Data provided by the Information and Communications Technologies Authority of Turkey (BTK) indicates that Turkey imported nearly 4 million mobile devices from January to March of this year.
The total cost of mobile imports is estimated to be around $630 million in the quarter, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute.
In comparison, there were imports of 3.15 million mobile phones in the first quarter of last year.
Turkey imported 16.8 million mobile devices last year and 15.8 million in 2013. The total cost of mobile imports is estimated to be around 11 billion Turkish liras ($4.1 billion) in 2014.
