Latvia’s new early warning system will not be implemented at the end of 2024 as planned because of a delay in the procurement process, Interior Minister Rihards Kozlovskis announced, LSM reports. He said that the delay was due to the many legal appeals during the procurement procedure. The ministry announced a procurement tender for the…
A total of 544,800 households in Estonia, or 92.9% of all households, have used the internet in 2024, according to data from Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. The most common services used on the internet are online banking (90.4%) and email (89.7%). Another 88% of people use the internet to look for information about products or…
Some internet domains used by Russia to meddle in the upcoming US presidential elections were purchased using the Lithuanian cryptocurrency payment platform, CoinGate, according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), BNS reports. CoinGate is owned by Vilnius-based Decentralized (former Virtualios Valiutos), which established a subsidiary, CoinGate, in the US in 2021. Some of…
Internet connection speeds in Estonia are among the slowest in the entire EU, ERR reports. According to DELFI, Estonia ranks 26th out of all 27 EU member states by the share of households with internet connections of at least 100 mbps. While 76% of houses have high-speed broadband available, only 35.5% of Estonian households are…
Estonia continues to collect telecommunication data from its citizens despite it being against EU law and the constitution, ERR reports. The European Court of Justice and Estonia’s Supreme Court have concluded that the data collection is illegal. The data include detailed records from telecommunications and internet service providers, which the EU court argues infringes on…
Estonian media group Ekspress Grupp will stop publishing its daily newspaper, Eesti Päevaleht, in print as of April 2024, ERR reports. Ekspress Grupp said that the move was due to changes in consumer behaviour. Eesti Pävaleht will continue as a digital publication under the DELFI news portal’s opinion, culture, and weekend sections. Eesti Päevaleht’s print…
Estonia’s Ministry of Justice is considering granting the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA) the power to order ISPs to block websites involved in copyright infringement, ERR reports. The ministry argues that existing legal means are insufficient for protecting copyright on digital platforms. The proposed solution involves DNS and IP-based blocking, allowing ISPs to…
Estonian media group Ekspress Grupp posted revenue of EUR 35.3mn in the first half of 2023, which was up 18% from EUR 29.8mn in the same period of 2022, GlobeNewswire reports. Digital revenue rose by 28%, accounting for 82% (76%) of total revenue. Ekspress Grupp had 175,400 digital subscribers at the end of June 2023,…
Estonian media group Ekspress Grupp’s digital subscriptions totalled 175,379 at the end of the first half of 2023, which was nearly 34,000 (24%) more than in the same period of 2022, GlobeNewswire reported. The number of subscriptions rose by 9% in the second quarter of 2023 and 20% in the first six months of 2023….