Türkiye reports 5G users, Kazakhstan sites, Armenia coverage

Türkiye's regulator counts 5G users, Kazakhstan's government counts base stations and Armenia's operators publish coverage, while Georgia's regulator confirms availability without numbers, the first 5G Scorecard, compiled from documents available on 17 October 2026, shows.

This first edition finds four markets with published figures and no single measure that all four report. The 5G Scorecard sets out, country by country, the latest 5G figures published by regulators, governments and operators in the corridor, with the document behind every cell.

Türkiye: a user count three months in

Türkiye's ICT Authority (BTK) is the only regulator in the table that counts 5G users. Its second-quarter market report puts 5G subscriptions at 44,487,035 and real 5G users, excluding machine-to-machine lines, at 44,268,946 at the end of June, less than three months after the service began on 1 April. The regulator separates those totals from active use. Subscribers whose device and SIM card both support 5G numbered 26,102,884, and 5G-compatible devices 29,777,164; the report says some subscribers cannot use the service because their handset or SIM is not compatible. The active figure, not the headline, is the one comparable to a usage measure elsewhere. The report, which BTK announced in a notice of 30 September, gives no 5G coverage figure or site count.

Kazakhstan, Armenia and Georgia

Kazakhstan measures its build. The government reported 1,144 5G base stations in 20 cities in June 2024 (government release) and more than 4,000 in more than 20 cities on 6 October 2026 (session summary), a more than threefold rise. The only population figure is an operator's: Kcell's 5G network reached 53.54 per cent of the population at the end of 2025 (full-year release) and 64.29 per cent at the end of June 2026, with 3,034 base stations (half-year release). No national user count appears in the documents reviewed.

In Armenia the figures come from the operators and use different bases. Ucom says its 5G network covers 94.62 per cent of the population, in 48 cities and 447 villages, as of 16 January 2026, on its coverage page. Viva says its network covers about 80 per cent of inhabited areas, in Yerevan and 32 cities across eight regions, in its release of 13 October. A share of population and a share of inhabited areas cannot be ranked against each other. The regulator's 2025 award to Viva carries coverage duties due within three to seven years, the Public Services Regulatory Commission said.

Georgia's regulator told Parliament that 5G became available to subscribers of all three mobile operators in 2025, and that it measures 5G and VoLTE quality with a monitoring system, its statement of 22 September says. It published no users, coverage or sites in that statement. For Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan this edition found no published 5G figures in the regulator and ministry documents reviewed, so they have no rows.

Method

Each cell carries the latest figure in a primary document, as published, with its date. Operator figures are labelled with the operator's name. "Not published" means no figure was found in the documents reviewed, not that none exists. The threefold rise in Kazakhstan's base stations is a Data Desk calculation from the two government figures. The next edition, in the first week of February, will add Türkiye's third-quarter report and any new figures sent to the Data Desk.