Estonia - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

Estonia’s telecom market is slowly displaying the effects of competition as alternative operators chip away at the fixed-line market share of 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. This report provides an overview of Estonia’s fixed-line and IT market in 2011, presenting the major telecom operators, regulatory developments, fixed-line networks in use and offers a variety of useful and interesting performance and financial data.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Key statistics
• 3. Telecommunications market
  • 3.1 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)
• 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 (e)
• Table 2 – Telephone network statistics – 2010 (e)
• Table 3 – Internet user statistics – June 2010
• Table 4 – Broadband statistics – 2010
• Table 5 – Mobile statistics – 2010
• Table 6 – National telecommunications authority
• Table 7 – Local loop unbundling and share access costs – 2006 - 2009
• Table 8 – Fixed-line portings – 2008 - 2009
• Table 9 – Eesti Telekom group – revenue breakdown – 2007 - 2010
• Table 10 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 - 2011
• Table 11 – Elion PSTN/ISDN outgoing call minutes – 2006 - 2010
• Table 12 – Elion PSTN/ISDN subscribers – 2002 - 2010
• Table 13 – Workplace network usage by network type – 2006 - 2009
• Table 14 – Wholesale lines by type – 2008 - 2009
• Table 15 – Elion wholesale broadband subscribers – 2004 - 2010

• Chart 1 – Eesti Telekom group – revenue breakdown – 2007 - 2010
• Chart 2 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2000 - 2011
• Chart 3 – Elion PSTN/ISDN outgoing call minutes – 2006 - 2010
• Chart 4 – Elion PSTN/ISDN subscribers – 2002 - 2010
• Chart 5 – Elion wholesale broadband subscribers – 2004 - 2010

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