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Telia is head and shoulders above its competition when it comes to the average download and upload speeds reported by our users. Telia comfortably wins Opensignal's Download Speed Experience award with a score of 58.6 Mbps — 59.4% to 91.1% faster than Elisa. Likewise, Telia also wins the Upload Speed Experience award with 14.3 Mbps — at least 43.5% faster than its competitors.
Our users on Elisa and Telia spent the greatest amount of time connected to 4G or better services, with 4G Availability of 91.3-93.5% on average — at least 3.9 percentage points ahead of Tele2. In addition to the 4G Availability award, Elisa and Telia also jointly win the 4G Coverage experience award with statistically tied scores of 9.1 and 9.3 points (out of 10) — ahead of Tele2's score of 8.8 points.
Elisa, Tele 2 and Telia are joint winners of the Video Experience and Voice App Experience awards with statistically tied scores in both categories. On a 100-point scale, the Video Experience score of our users ranged between Very Good and Excellent ratings (on a scale of 0-100), while the Voice App Experience scores earned a Good rating.
Elisa and Telia are joint winners of the Games Experience award, with users reporting no significant difference in the quality of multiplayer mobile gaming experience over cellular networks. Opensignal's Games Experience assesses how mobile users experience real-time multiplayer mobile gaming on an operator's network. Measured on a scale of 0-100, it analyzes how the multiplayer mobile gaming experience is affected by mobile network conditions, including latency, packet loss and jitter.
Our first look at the mobile network experience in Estonia reveals something of a two-horse race in the market. While Telia comfortably wins two out of seven award categories outright — Download Experience and Upload Speed Experience awards — Elisa and Telia jointly win the remaining categories , including Video Experience and Voice App Experience, where we saw three-way-ties with Tele2.
Estonia embarked on its 5G journey in late 2020 when Telia announced launch of 5G services in the country's three largest cities — Tallinn, Tartu and Pärnu. The operator went for dynamic spectrum sharing technology that uses its existing frequencies, as the government was facing legal challenges in auctioning spectrum licenses in the 3.5 GHz band, which are suitable for 5G. Since then the operator has claimed to have rolled out commercial 5G network across 77 locations in 14 main cities.
However, very recently, the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet, TTJA) has confirmed that the auction in the 3410MHz-3800MHz range is expected to take place this year, which will pave the way for the wider expansion of 5G services in the country.
And as Estonia's operators prepare to participate in the much-awaited auction this report acts as a benchmark of the country's mobile network experience before the widespread deployment of 5G. In this report, we've analyzed the overall mobile network experience on Estonia's three national operators — Elisa, Tele2 and Telia, over 90 days starting on November 1, 2021, and ending on January 29, 2022. 5G measurements contribute to the overall results.
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February 2022,
Estonia Report
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Elisa
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Tele2
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Telia
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Video Experience
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Games Experience
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Voice App Experience
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Download Speed Experience
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Upload Speed Experience
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4G Availability
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4G Coverage Experience
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Mobile Experience Awards Winners
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February 2022,
Estonia
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Download Speed Experience
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Telia
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Upload Speed Experience
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T
Telia
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Mobile Experience Awards Draws
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February 2022, Estonia
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Video Experience
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Elisa
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Tele2
T
Telia
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Games Experience
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Elisa
T
Telia
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Voice App Experience
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E
Elisa
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Tele2
T
Telia
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4G Availability
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Elisa
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Telia
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4G Coverage Experience
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Elisa
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Telia
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