Estonia Telecommunications Profile 2001

Telephones - main lines in use

476,078 (yearend 1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular

475,000 (yearend 2000)

Telephone system

general assessment: foreign investment in the form of joint business ventures greatly improved telephone service; Internet services available throughout most of the country; about 150,000 unfilled subscriber requests

domestic: local - the Ministry of Transport and Communications is expanding cellular telephone services to form rural networks; intercity - highly developed fiber-optic backbone (double loop) system presently serving at least 16 major cities (1998)

international: fiber-optic cables to Finland, Sweden, Latvia, and Russia provide worldwide packet-switched service; two international switches are located in Tallinn

Radios

1.01 million (1997)

Radio broadcast stations

AM 3 (all AM stations inactive since July 1998), FM 82, shortwave 1 (1998)

Televisions

605,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

31 (plus five repeaters) (September 1995)

Internet country code

.ee

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

28 (2000)

Internet users

309,000 (2000)