Türk Telekom is the formerly state-owned Turkish telecommunications company. Türk Telekom was separated from Turkish Post in 1995. Türk Telekom Group provides integrated telecommunication services from PSTN, GSM to wide-band Internet. The Türk Telekom Group companies had 16.8 million PSTN customers, 6 million ADSL customers and 12.1 million GSM customers as of September 30, 2009. With its network substructure covering the whole country, the group’s companies offer a wide range of services to personal and corporate customers. Türk Telekom, which owns 99.9% of the shares of the companies TTNET, Argela, Innova, Sebit A.Ş. and AssisTT, is also the owner of 81% of the shares of Avea, which is one of the three GSM operators in Turkey. Türk Telekom also supports Albania’s Albtelecom. 55% of the shares of Turk Telekom belongs to Levent Yapılandırma Yönetimi A.Ş. and 30% of the shares belongs to Turkey’s Undersecretariat of Treasury. The remaining 15% of shares have been offered to the public.