MAP > Internet Providers in Finland

Finland’s telecom market has ranked among the most progressive in Europe, with some considerable emphasis by the operators to be able to test the bed technologies, and in particular in mobile as well as the broadband sectors. Such efforts have got support by the regulator that has been offered the additional spectrum for the telecom services. The efforts result to a country which has enjoyed one of highest broadband as well as the mobile penetration rates in a region with the customers being able to make use of latest iterations of the technologies and this is including DOCSIS3.1 carrier aggregation with the LTE-A as well as the GPON fiber infrastructure.

This country has a highly advanced mobile market and also has been a pioneer in being able to develop 5G. The trial licenses got to be issued to the network operators in early 2018, the numerous tests that got to be held later using the spectrum in 3.5GHz band. Auction of the spectrum in the band is going to enable the operators to be able to launch the commercial services in the early 2019 pending release of the 3.5GHz spectrum as well as availability of the 5G compliant modems as well as devices.

Finland’s very high broadband penetration is as a result of the astute regulatory measures that have encouraged the market competition. Companies have been very keen when it comes to investing in the new technologies to be able to address the demand for the improved services among the customers. Government has been able to set the demand broadband delivery targets and has been working towards the targets to be easily achieved by the year 2025 and the year 2030 that incorporates the mix of the fixed line as well as the mobile technologies, with former focused on the FttP as well as DOCSIS3.1 technologies and latter on the Gigabit LTE as well as 5G.

The report assesses the key aspects of Finnish telecom market offering data on fixed network services sector combined with the overview of the essential regulatory issues regarding interconnection, the local loop unbundling, the number of portability as well as the carrier preselection. This report does also provide the statistics as well as research on mobile data services and development of the emerging technologies as well as networks including LTE, 5G, and HSPA. Also, this report gets to profile fixed as well as the wireless broadband markets and also analyses development in the related technologies such as the FttP, Wi-Fi and the powerline broadband.