Estonia eSIM

Data for Estonia on Telia and Elisa, from $5.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.

Networks: Telia and Elisa
Typical speed: 95 Mbps typical, 30 Mbps at busy times
5G: yes, standalone and non standalone
Throttle: None on metered plans
Tethering: Allowed on every plan

An Orbislo eSIM for Estonia starts at $0.32 for 500 MB and runs on Telia and Elisa. Typical download speed is 95 Mbps, fast enough for anything. Install the line for Estonia in one tap before you fly, turn on data roaming when you land, and the data never expires.

Plans for Estonia

Data plans for Estonia
Data	Validity	Price per GB	Price
1 GB	Never expires	$5.89	$5.89
3 GB	Never expires	$2.63	$7.89
5 GBMost travellers	Never expires	$1.98	$9.89
10 GB	Never expires	$1.49	$14.89
20 GB	Never expires	$1.19	$23.89
50 GB	Never expires	$1.54	$76.89

Every plan works the moment you land. Unused data returns to your wallet when the line closes, and customers get at least 100 MB of free rescue data a month even at zero balance.

What 95 Mbps actually means in Estonia

Typical download speed on Orbislo in Estonia: 95 Mbps. That puts Estonia well above the Europe median of 71 Mbps.

The tenth percentile is 30 Mbps. That gap between the median and the floor is normal and it is where the frustration lives: the connection is quick most of the time and noticeably slow in the busiest few percent of moments, typically at transport hubs at peak hour.

At these speeds nothing on a phone is limited by the connection. Video calls are comfortable, a laptop can be tethered for a full working day, and large photo backups finish without planning around them.

Which networks you will be on

Orbislo carries traffic in Estonia on Telia and Elisa. Your phone is not tied to one of them. When the network you are attached to congests or drops, the profile moves you to the other, and it happens without a prompt and without you noticing anything except that the connection kept working.

This matters more than the headline speed. Almost every travel eSIM sold today resells a single upstream agreement per country, so when that one network has a bad hour you have a bad hour with it and your only option is to buy a second eSIM from somebody else. A profile with more than one network behind it can make a decision you never see.

5G in Estonia: yes, standalone and non standalone. Worth knowing that 5G on a travel profile is normal rather than special, and that the tenth percentile above is the number that will decide how the trip feels, not the generation label in the status bar.

A single carrier provider cannot make this move.

What data costs in Estonia

A 500 MB plan for Estonia starts at $0.32, which is $0.00 a gigabyte. That is the number to compare between providers, because a headline price attached to a different allowance tells you nothing.

The comparison most providers would rather you did not run is cost per gigabyte actually used. Independent surveys of travel data put the share of purchased data lost to expiry between 20 and 35 percent, because a plan that expires on day thirty deletes what you did not get through. Orbislo data has no expiry date, so the gigabyte you paid for is still there on the next trip. At the same headline price that is 25 to 40 percent more usable data, and in Estonia it means the effective cost is nearer $0.00 a gigabyte than $0.00.

Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Estonia is to buy slightly less than you think you need and top up if you run out. Topping up takes about ten seconds and does not involve installing anything. Buying too much is the expensive mistake everywhere else and merely a neutral one here.

Landing in Estonia

Install before you fly, on your home wifi. The profile downloads while you still have a connection you trust, then sits dormant until you land in Estonia and it attaches to Telia.

On landing there is one thing to check: data roaming has to be switched on for the Orbislo line. It is off by default on both iOS and Android, and it has nothing to do with roaming charges here, because the plan is prepaid and there is no bill to run up. Turn it on for the Orbislo line and leave it off for your home line, and your home number keeps working for calls and bank codes without costing anything.

Coverage across Estonia

The figures above cover Estonia as a whole, and a national figure hides real variation. We publish separate figures for Tallinn and Tartu, because the difference between a capital and a coastal town is usually larger than the difference between two countries.

Outside the cities, coverage follows the same pattern it does everywhere: the main roads and the tourist corridors are well served, and it thins in the mountains and on the water. No travel eSIM changes that, because it is the same physical network the local population uses. What a multi network profile changes is which of the available towers you get to use.

Worth knowing about Estonia

Estonia is inside the European Union roam like at home area, so a plan from another EU country is billed at its domestic rates here, subject to the fair use test an operator may apply over a four month window.
The Estonian emergency centre answers 112 free of charge, and the call connects even when there is no SIM card in the phone or your own operator has no coverage where you are standing.
Estonia's public warning system, EE-ALARM, texts phones in a danger zone during fires, chemical accidents or security threats. Phones with a foreign SIM receive the alert from +372 5950 0000 instead, because a named sender could be filtered as spam; that number cannot be called back.
EE-ALARM messages go only to phones attached to masts inside or at the edge of the risk area, so two people on the same street can get different results. A final all clear is also sent to phones that were alerted earlier and have since left.
In an emergency or war the Estonian state can switch on domestic roaming, letting phones use any operator's network. Activation is announced publicly, and you may need to turn off automatic network selection and pick another network by hand.
During a wider communications outage the state warns that card payments and Mobile-ID and Smart-ID logins may stop working, and advises hourly radio news, which also plays in a car, as the fallback for official information.
Around Lake Peipus and Narva, phones can latch onto a Russian network because Estonian operators must turn their signal down near the border. Each megabyte used on a Russian network can cost several euros, so switch to manual network selection in those areas.
On ferries far from shore, such as the Tallinn to Stockholm route, a phone with no land signal can connect to a satellite network at sea. Tele2 quotes 18 euros per megabyte for that link, so keep data off unless you truly need it.
The state helpline 1247 answers around the clock in Estonian, Russian and English for questions that are not emergencies, and it is free to call from every Estonian network. In a major incident it becomes the official crisis information line.
People who cannot speak or hear can text 112 in Estonian, Russian or English, and the message is free on every Estonian network. Texts from numbers pre-registered for the SMS-112 service reach the emergency centre at once; others arrive with a delay.
Since 1 May 2025 Estonia's numbering plan caps the standard price of calling a service short number at no more than a call to an ordinary Estonian landline or mobile number, which keeps short-code calls on a local SIM at ordinary call prices.
Outdoor warning sirens cover Tallinn, Tartu, Narva, Pärnu and 18 other towns and sound only when lives are directly at risk. If you hear one, go indoors at once; the instructions then arrive by EE-ALARM text and through the media.
Scam calls into Estonia increasingly come from SIM boxes inside the country loaded with Estonian prepaid cards, which lets them slip past the filters operators run at the national border. A local caller ID is therefore no proof that a call is genuine.

How Estonia compares across Europe

Regional typical speed: 71 Mbps
Upstream networks: 2, Telia, Elisa
5G: Yes, standalone and non standalone
Next fastest nearby: Norway, 97 Mbps
Next slowest nearby: Netherlands, 94 Mbps
Cities with their own page: 2: Tallinn, Tartu

Cities in Estonia

Questions about Estonia

Will my phone work in Estonia?

If it supports eSIM and is not carrier locked, yes. We check your exact model before you pay and tell you plainly if it will not work, rather than taking the money and leaving you to find out on arrival.

Which network will I be on in Estonia?

Telia or Elisa. Orbislo moves you to whichever is performing better where you are standing, without asking you and without you noticing.

How fast is the data really?

Typical download speed is 95 Mbps, and 30 Mbps when the network is busy. The busy figure is the one to plan around: it is what you can expect when the cell is crowded.

Does the data expire?

No. There is no validity window on wallet gigabytes, and anything left over from a country pack returns to your wallet when the pack ends. This is the single largest difference between what you pay here and what you pay elsewhere.

Can I keep my normal phone number in Estonia?

Yes. The Orbislo profile is a second line, so your home number stays active for calls and texts on its own line. Turn data roaming off for the home line and on for Orbislo, and set up wifi calling before you fly so bank codes still reach you.

Can I tether a laptop?

Yes, on every plan, at the same allowance as your phone data and at no extra cost. At 95 Mbps a tethered laptop in Estonia is comfortable for a full working day.

What if I run out of data in Estonia?

Customers, meaning anyone who bought from Orbislo in the last 12 months or holds a subscription, get at least 100 MB of free rescue data once a calendar month, loaded onto the line they are using in Estonia when the balance runs out. It exists so you are never in the position of needing data in order to buy data. Topping up takes about ten seconds and installs nothing.

Is Orbislo cheaper than the alternatives in Estonia?

At $0.00 a gigabyte, the number that matters is what the data you actually use costs you. Expiry destroys 20 to 35 percent of a pack elsewhere. Ours never expires, so on cost per gigabyte used we are ahead almost everywhere.

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