Press Release: State aid: European Commission approves state aid for high speed internet in Estonia

The European Commission has authorised under the EU State aid rules Estonia's plans to support the establishment of a country wide high speed broadband infrastructure, the EstWin project.

The project aims at linking rural areas with the existing optical fibre network and give them access to high speed internet services. The Commission found the project to be in line with the state aid rules, because it could not have been induced through market forces alone and the infrastructure will be available to all operators under the same conditions.