Estonia - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

Estonia’s telecom market is benefitting from regulatory measures encouraging competition as alternative operators chip away at the fixed-line market share of the incumbent Elion. Fixed-line telecoms infrastructure has been upgraded and geared towards offering broadband and triple-play services, with ADSL2+ and FttH networks deployed in urban areas and wireless technologies such as WiMAX used to deploy either competing infrastructure or access into rural areas. The government has also promoted a public-private partnership to build a national fibre-based next-generation network providing 100Mb/s to all premises. The first counties have been connected to the network. This report provides an overview of Estonia’s fixed-line and IT markets, assessing the economic condition of the country in recent years and its influence on the performance of the largely international players in the market, recent regulatory developments, and the status of fixed-line networks and the NGN. It also includes a range of performance and financial data and estimates.

Key developments:

Tele2 buys the telco Televörgu; number portability procedures updated; ICT revenue broaches €3 billion; operator data to end-2011; Statistics Estonia data to end-2011; regulator’s 2010 market data report; ETSA market updates for end-2011; market developments into 2012.

Companies covered in this report include:

Elisa, Tele2, Elion.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Key statistics
• 3. Telecommunications market
  • 3.1 Economic background
  • 3.2 Overview of Estonia’s telecom market
• 4. Regulatory environment
  • 4.1 Background
    • 4.1.1 EU Regulatory Framework
    • 4.1.2 Revised NFR
  • 4.2 Regulatory authority
  • 4.3 Telecoms sector liberalisation in Estonia
    • 4.3.1 Privatisation
    • 4.3.2 Interconnect
    • 4.3.3 Access
    • 4.3.4 Carrier selection and Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
    • 4.3.5 Number portability (NP)
• 5. Fixed network operators
  • 5.1 Overview of operators
  • 5.2 Eesti Telekom (Elion)
    • 5.2.1 Tele2 Eesti
• 6. Telecommunications infrastructure
  • 6.1 National telecom network
    • 6.1.1 Elion
    • 6.1.2 Alternative operators
  • 6.2 Telecoms and IT
• 7. Wholesaling
• 8. Related reports

• Table 1 – Country statistics – 2011
• Table 2 – Telephone network statistics – 2011
• Table 3 – Internet user statistics – 2012 (e)
• Table 4 – Broadband statistics – 2012 (e)
• Table 5 – Mobile statistics – 2012 (e)
• Table 6 – National telecommunications authority
• Table 7 – ICT financial statistics – 2009 - 2013
• Table 8 – Telecoms sector revenue – 2008 - 2013
• Table 9 – Annual fixed-line portings – 2008 - 2009
• Table 10 – Eesti Telekom Group – revenue breakdown – 2005 - 2011
• Table 11 – Eesti Telekom subscribers by sector – 2009 - 2011
• Table 12 – Tele2 financial data by sector – 2007 - 2011
• Table 14 – Tele2 subscribers by sector – 2007 - 2011
• Table 15 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 - 2012
• Table 16 – Elion PSTN/ISDN outgoing call minutes – 2006 - 2010
• Table 17 – Elion PSTN/ISDN subscribers – 2002 - 2010
• Table 18 – Workplace network usage by network type – 2006 - 2011
• Table 19 – Elion wholesale broadband subscribers – 2004 - 2011

• Chart 1 – Eesti Telekom group – revenue breakdown – 2005 - 2011
• Chart 2 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2002 - 2012

• Exhibit 1 – The EU regulatory framework for communications
• Exhibit 2 – Access, the local loop and unbundling – an overview