Cobertura de Letonia

Qué significan las cifras de Letonia

Importan dos números y solo uno es el que cita todo el mundo. La velocidad habitual, 82 Mbps, te dice cómo es un buen momento.

El percentil diez, 24 Mbps, es el que conviene leer. Es la velocidad en la peor décima parte del día, cuando la antena de encima de la estación está llena y todos los que te rodean están en ella. Un país con mediana alta y suelo bajo es un país que funciona de maravilla hasta el momento en que de verdad lo necesitas.

Si el viaje depende de videollamadas o de compartir conexión, planifica con la cifra de hora punta y no con la habitual.

Qué pasa en Letonia cuando la red se satura

La congestión no es una avería, es un martes por la tarde. La pregunta es qué puede hacer tu eSIM al respecto, y en la mayoría de las eSIM de viaje la respuesta es nada: un acuerdo mayorista por país, una red y ninguna salida salvo comprar una segunda eSIM a otro mientras estás de pie en la calle.

Aquí el tráfico de Orbislo va por LMT y Tele2. Cuando la red en la que estás se degrada te movemos a otra, en mitad del viaje, sin que lo pidas, y te lo contamos después en lugar de interrumpirte en ese momento.

Operadores móviles en Letonia

• Tele2: Tele2 served 43 percent of private individuals' mobile voice and internet connections in 2023, the largest share in Latvia according to the regulator SPRK.
• LMT: Latvijas Mobilais Telefons served 34 percent of private individuals' mobile voice and internet connections in 2023, according to the regulator SPRK.
• Bite Latvija: Bite Latvija served 23 percent of private individuals' mobile voice and internet connections in 2023, the third of the country's three mobile networks.
• Market size: Latvia had 3.2 million active mobile connections at the end of 2023: 71 percent voice, 13 percent routers for laptops and tablets, and 16 percent machine to machine. LMT, Tele2, Bite and Tet together earned 81 percent of sector revenue.
• Network sharing: Tele2 builds its 5G network on its own because a planned network sharing deal with Bite Latvija did not win full approval from the regulator SPRK.

Redes antiguas en Letonia

• LMT closed 3G in Kurzeme in autumn 2023, in Zemgale, Latgale and Vidzeme during 2024, and finished in Riga in March 2025. It has offered VoLTE calling on 4G since early 2021, and most of its voice traffic now runs that way.
• Tele2 switched off its last 3G base stations, more than 70 of them in Riga, Pardaugava and Marupe, on the night of 5 March 2025. Phones used only for calls keep working over 2G.
• On Tele2, a phone limited to 2G and 3G can still make calls and send texts over 2G, but it has no mobile data once 3G is gone. Mobile data needs a 4G or 5G phone.
• Bite Latvija scheduled its final 3G switch-off, in Riga, for the night of 17 to 18 March 2026, after closing 3G across Zemgale, Vidzeme, Kurzeme and Latgale during 2025. In Riga, 75 percent of its voice calls already ran over VoLTE.

El 5G en Letonia

• SPRK's December 2021 auction of 700 MHz spectrum raised 13.273 million euros. Tele2, LMT and Bite Latvija each won a base block for 20 years from 1 February 2022, and Tele2 and LMT bought extra blocks valid from 2025, all running to 31 January 2042.
• Under the government's 5G roadmap cited by SPRK, the 700 MHz licensees must keep extending their base blocks beyond the state cities along land transport roads, including the Via Baltica highway.
• LMT bought rights to 3750 to 3775 MHz for 20 years at an SPRK auction in 2023. It then had about 400 5G base stations serving more than 180 populated places across Latvia.
• Tele2 paid 4.65 million euros in total for its 700 MHz spectrum, which it pairs with 3.5 GHz rights won earlier. At the time of the December 2021 auction its 5G reached 15 towns.
• By March 2026, Bite Latvija's 5G network covered nearly 90 percent of the population. Its 900 MHz spectrum, freed from 3G, now strengthens 4G coverage along the main highways.

Notas sobre la red en Letonia

• Mobile users in Latvia consumed an average of 48 GB per connection each month in 2023, up 15 percent in a year and the highest figure among OECD countries, driven by unlimited data plans.
• Tele2 uses its 900 MHz spectrum for 2G and 4G voice and data and says the band is vital for service in sparsely populated areas. It held 1460 site permits in the band in August 2026, against a required 760.
• All three mobile operators hold 900 MHz spectrum of comparable width, and SPRK found the band almost fully used, with no one operator holding a concentration of it.