INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM

TELKODERTurkish Competitive Telco Operators Association

Policies for Enabling Broadband: Special Focus on OTTs and Level Playing Fields

İstanbul, Turkey1 - 5 September 2014

Yusuf Ata ARIAKChairman of the board, Telkoder

Fully Converged Audiovisual World

According to Green Paper prepared by European Commission on Converged Audiovisual Services:

Consumer spending on digital video (movies and TV series delivered over the Internet) reached €364.4 million in 2011 (+41,8% vs. 2010) in Europe within a market of physical and digital videos amounting €9493.8 million (-4.6% vs. 2010)

The unmet demand for VoD services from pay-TV operators from other Member States is estimated to be in the range of €760 million to €1,610 million annually

Internet video users are expected to increase globally to 1.5 billion by 2016, up from 792million in 2011

306 video-on-demand (VoD) services in the EU in the third quarter of 2012

72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

Fully Converged Audiovisual World

IPTV / PAY TV - Growth

BroadcastingElectronic

Communication

OTT and..

Revenues of electronic communication are not increasing in EU

OTT and ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

Revenues of electronic communication are not increasing in TURKEY

OTT and ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

OTT Services are a threat???

UNFAIR COMPETITION!!

Telco Operators OTTs

• Heavy taxes

• Various regulations

• Legal İnterception

• Sanctions

• No taxes

• No regulations

• No legal interception

• No sanction

MAIN TAXES ON ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

Fixed Services

ÖİV - %25

KDV - %18

Treasury Share Fee %15

İnternet Mobile Services

ÖİV - %5

KDV - %18

ÖİV - %15

KDV - %18

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