Home internet in Estonia is decided by your address before your budget. Fibre passes 77% of households against an EU average of 64%, but the regulator's address data says 52% of addresses reach more than one cable network, 25% exactly one, and 23% none at all. Which group your building is in is the whole decision: choosing between operators, choosing between that building's incumbent and a 5G box, or taking the 5G box.
The second thing to know is that the operators do not all tell you what they charge. Telia publishes a dated price list for every speed tier; Tele2 prints the campaign price and the list price that follows it; STV publishes a full ladder with its VAT rate stated. Elisa publishes nothing until an address is entered, so every Elisa price quoted anywhere is somebody's snapshot of an offer to one building.
Everything below is the operator's own published figure or nothing at all. Where an operator publishes only a speed, the speed is what appears.
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Fibre, cable and fixed wireless
Three technologies serve Estonian homes and they are not interchangeable. Fibre (valguskaabel) is the only one where the advertised upload matches the download. Cable and copper — the old television and telephone networks, upgraded — still carry a large share of connections and are asymmetric: a cable package sold as 100 Mbit/s often uploads at a tenth of that. Fixed wireless is a router with a SIM card, on a windowsill, using the masts your phone uses.
Fibre passes 77% of households but carries 35% of actual connections, and about 13% of fixed connections are now a wireless box. Availability and take-up are different numbers, and only one of them is in the headlines.
Ownership of the wire and sale of the service are separate businesses, which is why the operator list is longer than the network list. Enefit Connect, the network arm of the state energy group, has built fibre past roughly 80,000 households and sells nothing to them: it charges €199 to €299 to connect, and the household then picks a retail operator. Telia must let other operators use its network, ducts and cables included, at a rent. That wholesale layer is why 250 communications undertakings were on the register at the end of 2024 while Telia, Elisa and STV between them served about 92% of fixed-broadband end users.
Check the address, not the operator, and do it before you sign the lease. The regulator maintains netikaart, an address-by-address availability map built from what the largest operators report. A green point means a connection is possible there and shows the maximum speed; a red point means it is not, and the map can be filtered by download speed. It is the only way to find out in advance whether a flat is in the 52% with a choice or the 23% with no cable at all, and it takes a minute. A published price list is a ceiling rather than an offer — which tier an operator will actually sell you comes out of that same address search, whatever the list says. See renting for the rest of the pre-signature checks.
Speed tiers have drifted upward without most households moving with them: the regulator's 2024 yearbook records connections at 100 to 500 Mbit/s rising five points to 39% of users, and 95% of households now have internet of some kind.
Who actually sells it
Four names cover almost every household offer worth comparing. Telia, Elisa and Tele2 are the three national operators and also the three mobile networks, which is covered separately on SIM cards. STV is a city cable and fibre company that is nonetheless the third-largest fixed-broadband operator in the country by end users, and Infonet resells over the same network at the same prices. The cards below run in the order of who publishes most about their own prices, which is the only ordering the evidence supports.
No operator on this page has paid for placement and none of the links below is a commission link: each goes to the operator's own public price or product page. The cards are ordered by how much each operator publishes about its own prices, which reflects no commercial relationship of any kind. Some other pages on this site carry commission links, and those are marked where they appear.
Telia
Dated price list, every tier
Key features
- Public, dated, VAT-inclusive price list
- Router rental priced on the page
- Wholesale access opens its network
Published prices
- Price list
- 17 tiers, dated
- Entry tier
- €19.31, 20/4 Mbit/s
- 100/100 Mbit/s
- €27.90 a month
- Fastest tier
- 2.5 Gbit/s, €95.00
- VAT
- Included
Summary
- Public, dated, VAT-inclusive price list
- Router rental priced on the page
- Wholesale access opens its network
- A ceiling of what exists, not an offer
- May want a deposit from a newcomer
- Early exit triggers compensation
Tele2
Campaign price and the price after
Key features
- Both prices printed side by side
- Fibre and wireless priced together
- Router can be bought outright
Published prices
- Entry fibre
- €19.99, 50/50 Mbit/s
- Gigabit
- €40.99 a month
- Fixed wireless from
- €15.99
- Commitment
- 24 months
- First technician visit
- Free
Summary
- Both prices printed side by side
- Fibre and wireless priced together
- Router can be bought outright
- Steep step-up once the campaign ends
- Every package is a 24-month commitment
- Wireless sells data, not a speed tier
Elisa
Fastest network, no published price
Key features
- Full speed ladder and data policy
- Wireless data uncapped in its terms
- Fastest mobile network measured here
Published prices
- Monthly price
- Not published
- Wireless, slowest
- 15/3 Mbit/s
- Wireless, fastest
- 500/50 Mbit/s
- Wireless data cap
- None
- House connection from
- €199
Summary
- Full speed ladder and data policy
- Wireless data uncapped in its terms
- Fastest mobile network measured here
- No price on any public page
- Old lists cover discontinued services
- Early exit buys out subsidised equipment
STV and Infonet
Cheapest published tiers, city network
Key features
- Every tier symmetrical, upload matches download
- Dated list, VAT stated on it
- Cheapest at every comparable published tier
Published prices
- Entry tier
- €17.27, 20/20 Mbit/s
- 100/100 Mbit/s
- €25.41 a month
- Gigabit
- €45.74 a month
- Connection, flat
- €35
- Connection, house
- €150
Summary
- Every tier symmetrical, upload matches download
- Dated list, VAT stated on it
- Cheapest at every comparable published tier
- A city network, so most addresses cannot
- A house connection costs far more
- Infonet resells the identical ladder
The published packages
Put the three published lists beside each other and the market is more orderly than the marketing suggests. At every comparable speed the city cable operator is the cheapest, the incumbent is the dearest, and the third national operator sits between them on list price while advertising a campaign price below both. Telia's list runs to 17 tiers, STV's to six symmetrical ones from €17.27 to €45.74, and Tele2's to four from €19.99 to €40.99 at list price.
| Speed | Telia, from 1 Jul 2026 | Tele2, list price | STV, from 5 Aug 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Mbit/s | €19.31 (20/4) | — | €17.27 (20/20) |
| 50 Mbit/s | — | €19.99 (50/50) | €21.34 (50/50) |
| 100 Mbit/s | €27.90 (100/100) | — | €25.41 (100/100) |
| 150–250 Mbit/s | €31.00 (200/200) | €25.99 (150/150) | €29.47 (250/250) |
| 400–500 Mbit/s | €36.16 (400/400) | €30.99 (500/500) | €34.56 (500/500) |
| 1 Gbit/s | €55.90 | €40.99 | €45.74 |
| 2.5 Gbit/s | €95.00 | — | — |
Every figure above includes 24% VAT, because all three lists say so. Elisa is absent from the table for the reason given at the top: its household pages publish no monthly figure. What Elisa does publish is the speed ladder for its fixed-wireless packages, from 15/3 Mbit/s to 500/50 Mbit/s, and the fact that none of them carries a data cap.
The regulator has taken a public position on whether these numbers are high, which is unusual and worth reading. Its answer, published in reply to a newspaper claim that Estonian broadband is an outlier: about 75% of users buy packages up to 100 Mbit/s, that tier costs around €25 a month, everything up to 500 Mbit/s sits below the European average, and a gigabit costs €80 to €100 because fewer than 0.01% of customers want one. The published lists above bear the first half out: €25.41 and €27.90 sit either side of €25.
Two numbers on one page, and the second one is the real one
A campaign price runs for the length of the contract and the list price starts the month after it. Tele2 prints both: the gigabit package is €21.50 for 24 months and €40.99 from month 25, and the entry tier goes from €14.50 to €19.99. Budget on the second number. An operator that shows only the first is not showing you what you agreed to.
Router rental is the line most often left out of a comparison and it is not small over a two-year term. Telia charges €4.13 a month for the fibre and copper routers alike and €6.99 for the 5G box, and prints both on the product page rather than leaving them to the first bill — which almost nothing else in this market does. STV charges €5.08 for a Wi-Fi 6 router, and prices a static address separately at €10.00 a month on top of the tier. Tele2 rents its 5G router at €9.99 a month or sells it for €282. Rented for the 24 months of a contract, that €9.99 is more than the purchase price of a router you would then own.
One last trap inside Telia's own list: two tiers there share a download speed and differ in price, because they differ on the upload. Read both halves of the ratio before deciding one of them is simply dearer.
The term and leaving early
Two things get confused: the subscription contract, which is open-ended, and the commitment attached to a discount, which is not. Elisa's pre-contract information sheet — which every consumer is entitled to before signing — states that the subscription is open-ended and endable at any time, and that the liability on leaving comes from equipment bought on discounted terms against an obligation to use the service for a fixed period: leave early and the equipment is bought out and a handling fee paid. Telia's general terms say the same.
The regulator's position on ending a contract is worth knowing before an operator tells you otherwise. In November 2025 it stated that a consumer may end a communications contract by notifying the provider, that it ends on the business day after the notice whatever the provider confirms, and that allowing termination only in a shop, where the contract could be signed online, probably restricts consumer rights unreasonably.
| What the published terms actually say | |
|---|---|
| Contract term | Subscription open-ended; the campaign discount carries a 24-month commitment |
| Ending it | Notify the provider; it ends the next business day |
| Ending it early on a discount | Buy out the subsidised equipment and pay a handling fee |
| Terminating only in a shop | Likely an unreasonable restriction where the contract could be signed online |
| Mid-month termination | A full month's fee is still due under Elisa's terms |
| Connection fee, flat | €35 at STV where the building is already wired |
| Connection fee, house | €150 at STV; €199 upward at Elisa; €199–€299 for an Enefit Connect fibre connection |
The installation fee separates a flat from a house more sharply than the monthly price does. Where an operator's cable is already in the stairwell, connecting a flat is administrative — €35 at STV. A detached house needs cable built to it: €150 at STV, from €199 at Elisa, €199 to €299 for an Enefit Connect fibre connection in interest-free instalments. Tele2's first technician visit on fibre is free.
Renting: what a tenant can order in someone else's flat
A tenant can hold an internet contract in their own name, and in most Estonian flats that is what happens. What a tenant cannot do is change the building — a different question, answered by different people.
A tenant can normally do this alone
No landlord signature needed
- Sign a contract in their own name for a service the flat can already receive
- Order any operator whose cable already reaches the building
- Put a fixed-wireless router on a windowsill, which touches nothing structural
- Rent or buy the router, and take it away at the end of the lease
- End the contract on moving out, effective the next business day
This needs the owner, and often the association
Because it changes the property
- Bringing a new operator's cable into a building that has none
- Any drilling, trunking or fixing of cable inside the flat
- A connection fee that attaches to the dwelling rather than to you
- Anything the apartment association has to admit a contractor for
- Moving an existing connection point, which operators forbid unilaterally
Telia's service terms make the second column explicit on one point: the connection point may not be moved by the customer unilaterally, and doing so is a material breach. So the contract is bound to the address rather than to you, and moving flat is not a change of package but a question of whether the new address can be served at all.
Who pays is a lease question. Under the Law of Obligations Act a tenant owes costs beyond the rent only where the lease says so, and internet is one of the items almost every Estonian lease does allocate to the tenant — see renting. The clean arrangement is the tenant's own contract, because it ends when the tenancy does; the one that causes arguments is the landlord's contract re-billed as a fixed sum.
In a single-operator building, price the wireless box before you sign the lease. 25% of addresses reach exactly one cable operator and 23% reach none, and a tenant cannot add a second. The alternative is a fixed-wireless package at €15.99 to €30.99 a month, which needs no cable, no association meeting and no landlord signature.
Mobile internet instead, and when it is genuinely enough
A fixed-wireless box is a normal 4G or 5G connection sold on a home contract, and about 13% of Estonian fixed connections are now one. It exists because of the address arithmetic above rather than because it is cheaper: operators price it against fibre, not below it.
| Fixed wireless package | Published price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Tele2 5G, small | €15.99 list price | 40 GB a month in Estonia |
| Tele2 5G, medium | €21.99 list price | 200 GB a month in Estonia |
| Tele2 5G, uncapped | €30.99 list price | No monthly data limit |
| Elisa over the air | Not published | Seven tiers, 15/3 to 500/50 Mbit/s, no data cap in its terms |
| Router | €9.99 a month or €282 to buy at Tele2; €6.99 a month at Telia | A box on a windowsill, no cabling |
The test is a household one. A capped package suits someone working in documents and email with an evening film — 200 GB absorbs that — and does not suit three people streaming, game downloads or cloud backup, which pass it in a fortnight. An uncapped wireless package at €30.99 is dearer than a €34.56 half-gigabit cable line where cable exists, so the decision is usually fibre if the address has it, an uncapped box if not, and a capped one only for a light household or a short stay.
Two technical facts decide the rest. Upload is the weak side of every wireless connection. And the box uses the same masts as your phone, so mobile network quality is the ceiling: Elisa's median download of 336 Mbit/s, Telia's 241 and Tele2's 112 measure what your home connection would ride on. On phone plans as a substitute, SIM cards has the roaming and allowance detail, where unlimited mobile data runs €34.99 to €43.99 a month.
What a new arrival needs to sign up
No Estonian operator publishes a documents-required page for home internet, and none of the general terms makes a personal identification code a condition of signing. What they do set is identification and creditworthiness — the two things a new arrival actually meets.
Elisa's general terms require identification by an identity document and allow a deposit, guarantee or prepayment where the conditions for signing are not met, the person has owed the operator before, or the credit assessment is insufficient. Telia's allow a surety, guarantee, deposit or prepayment on the same footing, at signing or later; Tele2's reserve the right to check credit databases. None is a nationality rule and none mentions a residence permit: they describe a credit decision, and a person who arrived last month has no Estonian credit history to decide on.
That produces three routes. A resident with an isikukood and Estonian bank access signs online with an ID card, Mobile-ID or Smart-ID. A person with no personal code yet signs in a shop on a passport, and should expect a prepayment or deposit rather than a refusal. A short-stay visitor, or anyone who cannot yet open an Estonian bank account, is better served by a prepaid mobile package: a home contract is address-bound, carries an installation step and, on a campaign, a commitment measured in years.
A home contract binds you to a flat, not just to an operator, because the connection point is part of it. If you expect to change address inside a year — which most first-year arrivals do — the fixed-wireless box travels: no installation, no connection fee, no building to negotiate with.
Estonia against the rest of the EU
Estonia is a fibre leader and a very-high-capacity laggard at the same time, and both claims come from EU data. Fibre passes 77% of households against an EU average of 64%; on very high capacity networks — the indicator the Digital Decade targets are written against — Estonia sits at 76.9% against an EU average of 78.8% for 2023, below rather than above. The Commission's recommendation to Estonia names that indicator and 5G together.
On price the picture is the other way round. The regulator's published position is that connections up to 500 Mbit/s sit below the European average and that the outlier is gigabit, at €80 to €100 a month for a product fewer than 0.01% of customers buy. Across the Union prices are falling: the Commission's retail price study for 2024 found fixed broadband down about 5% on the year and mobile internet about 14%. So the gap between Estonia and the cheapest EU markets is real at the top of the speed range and close to nothing in the range most people buy.
Comparisons go wrong in five ways: setting a campaign price against a list price, comparing a headline speed without the upload figure, leaving router rental out of a 24-month term, reading a national coverage percentage as an answer about your building when the regulator's address map answers it exactly, and paying for a gigabit in a flat where nothing can use it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does home internet cost in Estonia?
On the operators' published lists a symmetrical 100 Mbit/s line runs €25.41 at STV and €27.90 at Telia, both including 24% VAT; a gigabit €45.74 to €55.90, and Telia's fastest tier, 2.5 Gbit/s, €95. Tele2 runs from €19.99 for 50/50 Mbit/s to €40.99 for a gigabit, with campaign prices for the first 24 months. The regulator puts a good 100 Mbit/s line at around €25.
Why does Elisa not show a price for home internet?
Because its household pages are built around an address search: prices appear only after an address is entered. The only Elisa price lists on the open web are for services no longer sold. What it does publish is the speed ladder for its over-the-air home packages, seven tiers from 15/3 to 500/50 Mbit/s, with terms stating the mobile data volume is not limited. An Elisa quote has to be obtained for a specific address rather than read off a page.
Can I get internet at any address in Estonia?
Not from any operator. On the regulator's figures 52% of addresses reach more than one cable network, 25% exactly one and 23% none at all. In that last group the realistic option is fixed wireless over the mobile network, which about 13% of Estonian fixed connections now are. The state's address-by-address map, netikaart, is the only way to find out in advance what a particular flat can buy.
How long is a home internet contract, and what does it cost to leave early?
The subscription contract is open-ended and can be ended at any time — the regulator's position is that it ends on the business day after you notify the provider. What binds you is the discount: a campaign price is tied to a 24-month commitment, and Elisa's contract summary says early termination triggers a buy-out of equipment bought on discounted terms plus a handling fee, while Telia's general terms say compensation, a handling fee or other costs set in the contract. Ending a monthly-billed contract mid-month still costs the full month.
What is the installation fee for home internet?
It depends on whether cable already reaches the building. STV publishes €35 for a flat in a wired building and €150 for a house; Elisa's house connection starts at €199. An Enefit Connect fibre connection is €199 to €299 in interest-free instalments, and buys the network rather than the service — you then choose an operator to run over it. Tele2's first technician visit on fibre is free.
Can a tenant order internet in a rented flat, or does the landlord have to?
A tenant can hold the contract in their own name, which is cleaner because it ends when the tenancy does. What a tenant cannot do alone is change the building: bringing a new operator's cable into a block that has none, or any drilling or fixing of cable, needs the owner's agreement and often the apartment association's. Telia's terms also forbid the customer moving the connection point unilaterally, so the contract is bound to the address. Who pays is a lease question: under the Law of Obligations Act a tenant owes costs beyond the rent only where the lease says so.
Do I need an isikukood to get home internet?
No operator's general terms make a personal identification code a condition of signing. What they do require is identification and a credit assessment: Elisa's terms require an identity document and allow a deposit, guarantee or prepayment where the conditions are not met or the credit assessment is insufficient, and Telia's allow the same. So a newly arrived foreigner usually meets a request for a deposit rather than a refusal. The code still matters in practice, because it is what lets you sign online with an ID card, Mobile-ID or Smart-ID instead of going to a shop.
Is 5G home internet good enough to replace fibre?
For a light household often; for a heavy one rarely, and the limit is usually the data allowance rather than the speed. Tele2 publishes €15.99 for 40 GB a month, €21.99 for 200 GB and €30.99 uncapped, at list price. An uncapped wireless package at €30.99 costs more than a €34.56 half-gigabit cable line, so wireless wins on availability rather than price. Upload is the weak side, so a household on video calls all day notices sooner than one that streams.
Which operators actually exist in Estonia besides the big three?
250 general communications undertakings were on the register at the end of 2024, but Telia, Elisa and STV between them served about 92% of fixed-broadband end users. STV is a city cable and fibre company, third-largest in the country and with the fullest open price list; Infonet sells over the same network on an identical ladder, so treating the two as competing offers is a mistake. Enefit Connect is a wholesale fibre network rather than a retail seller, built past roughly 80,000 households.
Is internet in Estonia expensive compared with the rest of the EU?
Below average in the range most people buy, above it at the top. The regulator's position is that about 75% of users buy packages up to 100 Mbit/s at around €25 a month, that everything up to 500 Mbit/s sits below the European average, and that gigabit at €80–€100 is dear because fewer than 0.01% of customers want it. On coverage Estonia leads on fibre, 77% against 64%, and trails on very high capacity networks, 76.9% against 78.8%.
Should I rent the router or buy one?
Do the multiplication first. Telia charges €4.13 a month for its fibre and copper routers and €6.99 for the 5G box; STV €5.08 for a Wi-Fi 6 router; Tele2 rents its 5G router at €9.99 a month or sells it for €282. Across the 24 months of a contract the rental exceeds the purchase price. Renting still makes sense where the operator's box is required for the service to work, or where you expect to move inside the term.
What happens to my internet contract when I move house?
It does not travel with you. The connection point is part of the contract, and Telia's terms treat the customer moving it unilaterally as a material breach. Moving means asking whether the new address can be served at all, then transferring the service, ending the contract or starting a new one — and if your discount carries a fixed-term commitment, ending it early triggers the equipment buy-out and handling fee. A fixed-wireless box moves cleanly, because nothing is installed in the dwelling.
Check what your address can actually buy
Two operators publish a full price list and one publishes none, but all three decide what you can have from the address. Read the published lists first, then check the building.