Turkcell
Turkcell (NYSE: TIC) is the leading mobile phone operator of Turkey, based in Istanbul. The company
has 36.3 million subscribers by the end of September 2008, making it the third biggest in Europe.
Turkcell also provides GSM services internationally. It has 9.6 million subscribers via Fintur and its
affiliates in partnership with TeliaSonera in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Moldova. Turkcell's
Ukrainian majority-held business, Astelit, has 10.6 million subscribers.
Zain
Zain Group ( formerly MTC or Mobile Telecommunications Company) is Multinational Corporation specializing in Mobile Telecommunications. Zain operates in 22 countries (7 Middle Eastern and 15 sub-Saharan African countries) with over 16,000 employees providing a range of mobile voice and dataservices to over 63 million active individual and business customers as of December, 2008.
Kuzey Kıbrıs Turkcell
Kuzey Kıbrıs Turkcell is founded in 1999 as a subsidiary of Turkcell in Republic of North Cyprus.