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As of this week, Elisa has the largest 3.5G coverage in Estonia. This comes as a result of the 3.5G availability for all of Tartumaa, one of the largest counties in the country. Read the rest of this entry »

On Friday Estonian minister of Economic Affairs and Communications and Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (ITL) signed EstWin, a development project that makes 100 Mbps wide-band internet accessible to every citizen of the country by 2015. Read the rest of this entry »

On Friday, on the meeting of EPP-ED Group of European Parliament in Tallinn, Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communication, Mr Juhan Parts, condemned telecom companies preventing the open use of Skype in their networks.

Shortly after Skype’s iPhone App launch, which allows people to make P2P free calls to their contacts on Skype, Deutsche Telecom AG announced they will prevent its customers from using Skype on Apple Inc.’s iPhone as in violation to iPhone subscription contracts.
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As iPhone 3G goes on sale in Estonia on 21st of August, EMT has announced 2 different packages and the prices for the new iPhone. Minimum binding time for both is 24 months. Read the rest of this entry »

Almost a month after the launch in Scandinavia, EMT has confirmed the launch day of iPhone 3G in Estonia. iPhone gala will be held on 21st of August at 22:00 in Viru Centre downtown Tallinn. Read the rest of this entry »

During the 2-day period of 16th – 17th July thousands of Estonian mobile clients received a call from a Madagascar number: +261229600191. Those who missed the call and called back at that number were charged 1,63 € per minute.

Elisa, the operator discovering the spam, advises to not to answer the calls from unknown foreign numbers or return any of such missed calls. 

You are all welcome to report your experiences regarding it.

On Friday Telia announced iPhone3G prices for Sweden. It will be available in all 84 Swedish Telia stores with 3 subscription options, iMini, iMidi and iMaxi, offering the cheapest iPhone ever for 1 SEK (0.11€)! Read the rest of this entry »

Elisa has launched free M-internet campaign in Estonia according to which all M-internet packages are free until the 1st September. Given that the client does opt in to a free M-internet package of his/her choice, its pricing will apply after the campaign.

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Linxtelecom Estonia, Estonian branch of Dutch Linx Telecommunications B.V., reports their turnover has grown to 4.4 million Euros in 2007. It’s a 52% raise compared to 2006 concluding the year with approximately 160 000 Euros profit. Read the rest of this entry »

Estonian 2nd biggest town of Tartu is now on the map of high-quality 3.5G mobile coverage by Elisa. As of 13th of May all Elisa’s M-internet customers in the town can enjoy 7.2 Mbps connection. Read the rest of this entry »