Visiting Researcher's Guide - EURAXESS Estonia

8.7 Phones
Mobile phones have become just as important
as, or even more important than fixedline
telephones. Estonia has one of the highest
numbers of mobile phones per capita in
the world. A customer can choose between
a contract with a mobile phone service provider,
and a calling card. Calling cards have
no monthly payments, but slightly higher per
minute rates, and can easily be bought from
all petrol stations and news stands (no ID is
needed).
Estonia is in the forefront in the use of innovative
mobile technologies. Mobile phones
EVERYDAY NECESSITIES
can be used for parking, making payments in
some shops and restaurants, and for buying
public transport tickets in Tallinn and Tartu.
In order to make payments with your mobile
phone, you need to conclude a mobile payment
agreement with your bank.
For parking by mobile phone, a parking sticker
is encouraged to be used – this will be given
to you by your mobile phone operator.
The three largest mobile phone service providers
in Estonia are EMT, Tele2 and Elisa.
There are also many service providers for
fixed phones. several service providers offer
various options for Internet access.
You can use public phones with a calling
card, which you can buy from a post-office
or news stand. You can also call collect – to
do that, dial 16116 on a public phone. Calls to
emergency numbers are also free of charge
from public phones.
You must dial 00 and then the country code
to make international phone calls from Estonia.
Estonia’s country code is 372. To call the
Estonian mobility centre at the Archimedes
Foundation from abroad, for example, you
should dial +372 730 0337. To call the mobility
centre when you are already in Estonia,
dial 730 0337. And to call the Finnish mobility
centre from Estonia dial 00 358 977 4881.
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