Estonia Joins HSDPA Club

Estonia has become the latest country to benefit from mobile broadband services, following the launch of HSDPA by mobile market leader EMT. The operator, which controls around 47% of the wireless market, hopes that an early launch of HSDPA will give it an advantage over competitors Tele2 and Elisa. All three operators received 3G licences in 2003, but to date only EMT has launched the service commercially. EMT, which is controlled by Nordic telecoms operator TeliaSonera, began offering 3G in the last quarter of 2005, but take-up has so far been limited. At the end of 2005, the operator was

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