AS Eesti Telekom is a holding company registered and operating in the Republic of Estonia, whose subsidiaries provide telecommunications services.
[2] The company, founded in 1991 after the independence of Estonia, took over the existing government telephone network.
The company started with a copper cable network from the Soviet Russian period and a long list of people who were waiting for a telephone connection.
In 2008 the net sales of the Eesti Telekom Group totalled 6,190 million kroons, a decrease of 1% over the year.
[citation needed] Telia Eesti is a member of Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications.