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PRA C TICAL INFORM A TION 373

Communications in Estonia DIRECTORY
Estonia’s communications infrastructure is very efficient. Useful Numbers
All phone lines are digital, ensuring high-quality con nections Collect Calls
and easy-to-make international calls. Internet and mobile Tel 16116.
phone usage is particularly high. A wide range of services Directory Enquiries
can be paid for through mobile phones, including parking Tel 1182.
charges. Wi-Fi coverage in Estonia is almost total, and mostly Operator
free, including on the main islands and even on some Tel 165.
beaches. The post offices offer a range of express delivery
options, including a special pan-Baltic option. Mobile Phones
Elisa
The Internet ∑ elisa.ee
Virtually everywhere you go in Tele2
Tallinn and the rest of Estonia, ∑ tele2.com
Wi-Fi internet access is Telia
available in public places. ∑ telia.ee
Almost every café, restaurant,
hotel and public building offers Postal Services
Wi-Fi openly and free of charge,
making Internet cafés all but Cargobus
redundant, though one or two ∑ cargobus.ee
are still around. DHL
∑ dhl.ee
Postal Services DPD
∑ dpd.ee
The state-owned Estonian
postkontor (post office), called Omniva
Omniva, is an efficiently run ∑ omniva.ee
enterprise. It has 500 outlets Tallinn Central Post Office
around the country opening Narva mnt 1. Tel 661 6616.
Accessing the free Wi-Fi available just from 9am to 6 or 7pm on ∑ post.ee
about everywhere across Estonia week days, and between
9am and 3pm on Saturdays.
Tallinn Central Post Office in Estonia, while Cargobus
Making a Phone Call
is open from 8am to 8pm is a reliable Estonian parcel
Estonia has an extremely simple on weekdays, and from delivery company. The
and efficient digital telephone 10am to 4pm on Saturdays cheapest way of sending a
network. In 2004, the country and Sundays. parcel home is probably with
did away with all city codes, as The cost of sending a letter the state post office company
a result of which all landline of up to 50 g (about four Omniva. They can send
numbers are now seven digits. pages) in Europe is €1.20. To parcels to a specific address,
Calls to landlines are usually less send it registered costs around from post office to post office,
expensive than those to mobile €3. It is possible to package, or via courier.
phones. The public phone label and pay for sending
system has been decommis- letters and parcels via Dialling Codes
sioned, and there are now no Omniva’s online e-service.
public telephones to be found Major international couriers • All mobile numbers begin
anywhere in the country. such as DHL and DPD operate with 5 or 8; almost all other
lines start with other numbers.
• Toll-free numbers start with 80;
Mobile Phones premium rate numbers start
with 70.
Estonian mobile numbers start • To make an international call
with 5 or 8 and usually have from Estonia, first press “+”,
seven or eight digits. The main then the destination’s country
mobile phone operators are code and number.
Telia, Elisa and the pan-Baltic • To call Estonia from abroad dial
Tele2. EMT Simpel and Tele2 the international access code
both offer pre-paid SIM cards, (00 from the UK, 011 from the
which are useful for visitors US and Canada), followed by
planning to stay in Estonia for Estonian postbox outside the Central Post 372, Estonia’s country code.
a significant length of time. Office, Tallinn