All landline calls within the TRNC will be free of charge from April 1, 2021. Following amendments made to the Telecommunication Services, Fees and Implementation Regulation by the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, calls between homes, workplaces and other landlines will be free of charge without any limits.
Minister of Public Works and Transportation Resmiye Canaltay said the decision was taken in order to ease the economic pressure on the people of the TRNC and encouırage the use of landlines. Within the changes to the Telecommunication Services, Fees and Implementation Regulation, landline subscribers will pay a monthly fixed fee set at 17TL. Calls from TRNC landlines to TRNC mobiles and to Turkish landlines and mobiles were set as 12 kuruş per minute.