Estonia - Mobile Infrastructure, Broadband, Operators - Statistics and Analyses

Synopsis

Estonia has one of the most advanced mobile markets in Europe, having benefitted from considerable investment from the mobile network operators Telia, Elisa and Tele2. The market enjoys effective competition between the MNOs, although the MVNO sector remains underdeveloped. Operator investment in HSPA and LTE technologies has underscored the growing mobile broadband sector. The launch of LTE-A services has also provided far higher data rates, bringing the county to the forefront of such developments in the region and supporting a range of mobile data services and applications. Operators are engaged in 5G trials, which will further underpin revenue growth in coming years once services become commercially available from about 2020.

This report provides a concise overview of Estonia’s mobile market as players further develop the data sector. It covers the major players, regulatory developments, services offered and a variety of financial and operating statistics.

Key developments:

Regulator auctions spectrum in the 2.6GHz band for LTE and 5G services;
Telia Estonia and Tele2 Estonia trial 5G services;
Telia providing fastest average mobile broadband speeds, at 75.3Mb/s download;
Tele2 rolls out CA LTE-A services in major cities;
Elisa providing 99% population coverage with LTE, trials LTE-A technology;
Tele2 launches platform to manage M2M connections;
Telia Estonia partners with Sigfox to develop its LPWA platform;
Report update includes operator data to Q1 2018, Statistics Estonia data to December 2017, the regulator's market data updates and 2016 annual report, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

Telia Estonia, Tele2 Estonia, Elisa.

Table of Contents

1. Synopsis
2. Market analysis
3. Mobile statistics
- 3.1 General statistics
4. Mobile infrastructure
- 4.1 5G
- 4.2 4G (LTE)
- 4.3 3G
- 4.4 Other infrastructure developments
  - 4.4.1 M2M
5. Mobile voice
6. Mobile data
- 6.1 Short Message Service (SMS)
- 6.2 Multimedia Message Service (MMS)
7. Mobile broadband
8. Regulatory issues
- 8.1 Licensing
  - 8.1.1 Third Generation (3G) licences
  - 8.1.2 Fourth Generation (4G) licences
  - 8.1.3 800MHz licences
  - 8.1.4 2.1GH licences
  - 8.1.5 2.6GHz licenses
  - 8.1.6 700MHz
- 8.2 Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
- 8.3 Mobile Termination Rates (MRTs)
- 8.4 Roaming
- 8.5 Coordination with Latvia
9. Major mobile operators
- 9.1 Telia Estonia (Eesti Mobiltelefon, EMT)
- 9.2 Elisa
- 9.3 Tele2 Estonia
- 9.4 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
10. Mobile content and applications
- 10.1 Location-based services
- 10.2 M-commerce
- 10.3 Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
11. Related reports

Table 1 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1998 – 2009
Table 2 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2010 – 2018
Table 3 – Active prepaid and contract subscribers – 2010 – 2016
Table 4 – Ratio of prepaid to postpaid subscribers – 2000 - 2016
Table 5 – Telia prepaid subscribers – 2002 – 2018
Table 6 – Mobile services revenue by type – 2011 – 2016
Table 7 – Mobile revenue (subscription, data) – 2014 – 2016
Table 8 – M2M connections – 2011 – 2018
Table 9 – Mobile voice traffic – 2010 – 2018
Table 10 – Mobile data traffic – 2011 – 2018
Table 11 – Total SMS messages sent – 2004 – 2018
Table 12 – Total MMS messages sent – 2005 – 2018
Table 13 – Mobile broadband subscribers by type – 2006 – 2016
Table 14 – Active mobile broadband subscribers – 2010 – 2018
Table 15 – Proportion of mobile broadband connections by data speed – 2013 – 2016
Table 16 – Mobile data revenue – 2011 – 2016
Table 17 – Mobile number portings – 2005 – 2016
Table 18 – Telia subscribers – 2005 – 2018
Table 19 – Telia blended ARPU – 2005 – 2018
Table 20 – Telia mobile financial data – 2009 – 2018
Table 21 – Elisa financial data – 2008 – 2018
Table 22 – Elisa mobile subscribers – 2008 – 2018
Table 23 – Elisa mobile blended ARPU – 2016 – 2018
Table 24 – Tele2 mobile subscribers – 2007 – 2018
Table 25 – Telia M2M connections – 2014 – 2018

Chart 1 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2005 – 2018
Chart 2 – Mobile services revenue by type – 2011 – 2016
Chart 3 – Active mobile broadband subscribers – 2010 – 2018
Chart 4 – Proportion of mobile broadband connections by data speed – 2013 – 2016
Chart 5 – Elisa financial data – 2008 – 2018
Chart 6 – Elisa mobile subscribers – 2008 – 2018

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Last updated 15 Feb 2019
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Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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