Åland Islands eSIM

Data for Åland Islands on Ålcom, Telia and Elisa, from $7.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and you install Orbislo once rather than once per trip.

Networks

Ålcom, Telia and Elisa

5G

yes, non standalone

Throttle

None on metered plans

Tethering

Allowed on every plan

Plans for Åland Islands

Every plan works the moment you land. Unused data returns to your wallet when the plan ends, and there is 100 MB of free rescue data on your account even at zero balance.

Getting a local SIM in Åland Islands

Finland does not operate a compulsory identity check for prepaid mobile subscriptions, and Traficom's own porting guidance treats anonymous prepaid as a normal product, stating that the number of an anonymous prepaid service cannot be ported. A data-only eSIM bought before arrival is not caught by any Aland or Finnish registration duty.

Worth knowing about Åland Islands

• A handset with no SIM in it can still dial 112 on the network here. The answering point sees an operator code followed by the last seven digits of the handset IMEI in place of a number, which is how misuse of the emergency number gets traced.
• Roam like at home applies here as it does across the EU and the wider European Economic Area, but an operator may add a surcharge once the fair usage data volume is passed, or where a subscriber spends more time roaming than at home across four months.
• Aland is licensed as its own telecoms territory, not as part of the Finnish market. Under the Act on the Autonomy of Aland, a State authority may grant a licence for public telecommunications operations for Aland only with the consent of the Government of Aland, so every mobile network licence covering the islands needs Mariehamn's agreement as well as Helsinki's.
• Traficom's register of mobile network licence holders lists Aland allocations as a separate licence area marked Landskapet Aland, distinct from the nationwide blocks. Alands Telekommunikation holds Aland-only assignments including 1747.5 to 1785.0 MHz and 1920.3 to 1940.1 MHz, alongside Aland-specific holdings by Telia Finland and Elisa.
• Radio spectrum on the islands runs under a dedicated instrument, the Government Decree on the use of radio frequencies and a frequency plan in the Province of Aland (1244/2014), which sits alongside and separate from the decree governing mainland Finland.
• The Aland frequency decree was amended on 25 November 2021, in force from 1 December 2021, to bring the 700 MHz band into the province's plan and to align the Aland decree more closely with the mainland one. Aland therefore tracks Finnish spectrum policy on a delay rather than automatically.
• Aland's 3.5 GHz network licences went to Elisa Oyj, Telia Finland Oyj and Alands Telekommunikation ab, each receiving the same amount of frequency capacity, for the period 1 March 2020 to 31 December 2033.
• After the previous Aland licences expired at the end of 2017, the Government issued new network licences valid until the end of 2033: Telia Finland Oyj for the 900 and 1800 MHz bands and Alands Telekommunikation Ab for the 900 MHz band.
• The 700 MHz award for Aland stalled for years. Applications were invited on 8 December 2021, and the decision deadline was moved from 3 March 2022 to 31 May 2022 and then again to 3 November 2022, with Elisa, Telia Finland and Alands Telekommunikation all applying.
• The Aland 700 MHz licences were finally granted to Telia Finland Abp and Alands Telekommunikation Ab for the period 22 November 2024 to 31 December 2033, closing a gap that had run since the original 2021 invitation.
• The local carrier, Alands Telekommunikation Ab, trades as Alcom and describes itself as Aland's own operator owned by Alanders. It has more than 7,000 Aland co-owners and is held by Alands Telefon at 44.8 per cent and Mariehamns Telefon at 55.2 per cent.
• Protocol No 2 to the 1994 Act of Accession applies the EU Treaties to Aland subject to named derogations. Those derogations cover acquisition of real property, right of establishment and provision of services by persons without regional citizenship, and harmonised turnover taxes and excise duties. Electronic communications rules are not among them.
• The Finnish Tax Administration states plainly that the Aland Islands are not part of the EU VAT and excise territory, and that the special status creates a tax border between Aland and the EU VAT territory.
• EU distance selling rules do not apply to supplies to the Aland Islands, including sales to or from the Finnish mainland, because Aland counts as outside Finnish territory for the purposes of the VAT Directive. A shipment to an Aland address is not an ordinary intra-EU sale.
• Aland stays inside the EU customs territory while sitting outside its VAT and excise area, so goods crossing the tax border need paperwork: a presentation notification and national tax border declaration to or from mainland Finland, and an import or export declaration to or from other EU countries. A posted physical SIM is caught by this; a downloaded eSIM profile is not.
• Aland runs its own country-code top level domain, .ax, delegated not to a Finnish registry but to Alands landskapsregering in Mariehamn, which is listed at IANA as the ccTLD manager and administrative contact.
• The islands have been demilitarised and neutralised since the nineteenth century, with the 1921 Convention providing the most detailed regulation. Aland cannot be fortified, no military forces are allowed, and the manufacture, import and transport of arms and implements of war are forbidden. Only Finnish military aircraft may overfly, and they may not land except in an emergency.
• Neutralisation goes further than demilitarisation: Aland is to be kept out of war and may not, directly or indirectly, be used for any purpose connected with military operations. That rules out the kind of defence-driven network hardening that shapes telecoms policy elsewhere on the Baltic.
• Broadcast spectrum is handled separately for Aland too. On 11 June 2026 the Government granted the terrestrial television network licence for Aland to Alands Radio och TV Ab for the period 6 September 2026 to 10 January 2037, after updating the Aland frequency decree in April 2026.

How Åland Islands compares across Europe

Regional median

71 Mbps

Upstream networks

3, Ålcom, Telia, Elisa

5G

Yes, non standalone

Cities with their own page

1: Mariehamn

Cities in Åland Islands

• Mariehamn

Questions about Åland Islands

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