Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2025 Champion

Tariff Comparison Service


Description

Since there is a free market environment in the relevant sector, ensuring market and product/service transparency is one of the most important consumer protection tools. With the ‘Tariff Comparison Service’, it is aimed to provide accurate information to consumers with simple, clear and understandable data, so that consumers can make the right choice for themselves through this information. It is also aimed to eliminate information asymmetry, which is one of the important market failures in the economic literature. By eliminating information asymmetry in the sector, it is aimed to ensure that consumers make the right choice, increase price competition and quality of service. In addition, telecommunication companies can easily introduce their services to citizens through this service, thus increasing the recognition of small-scale companies in the market will have a positive effect on market competition. Within the scope of all these, protection of consumers in a weak position will be ensured. In addition, special consumer groups such as the people with disabilities, the elderly, and those with economic difficulties will be able to easily access tariffs offered specifically for them through this service

Project website

https://www.turkiye.gov.tr/btk-tarife-karsilastirma


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge 2025
  • AL C4. Capacity building
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
  • Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
  • Goal 15: Life on land

Coverage
  • Türkiye (Republic of)

Status

Ongoing

Start date

07 February 2025

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Older persons
  • Women
  • Indigenous and nomadic peoples
  • People with disabilities
  • The unemployed
  • The poor
  • Migrants
  • Refugees and internally displaced people
  • Remote and rural communities

Sustainability

It is expected that this service will be used intensively by the society with the benefits it offers to both consumers and sectoral competition, and that this use will have a positive impact on the environment by reducing time and research costs.


WSIS values promotion

This service has been developed to ensure that consumers, who are in a weak position in the face of large companies, are informed in the most accurate way and make the right decisions for themselves.


Entity name

Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK)

Entity country—type

Türkiye (Republic of) Government

Entity website

https://www.btk.gov.tr/

Partners

This service has been developed through co-operation between public bodies Information and Telecommunication Technologies Authority (BTK) and e-Government Gateway (Digital Transformation Office (DTO) of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye and TÜRKSAT) and private telecommunications companies (13 leading telco companies of Türkiye).