📋 Tender Overview
In Finland, communications networks are mainly built on market terms. Mobile network coverage has built up well, and high-speed 5G networks covered 90 per cent of Finnish households and 14 per cent of the land area in late 2023.
However, in an international comparison, Finland lags behind the other Nordic countries in terms of the availability of high-speed fixed connections and, in particular, light moons. At the end of 2023, the availability of optical fibre to households in Finland was 61 per cent, while in Sweden 96 per cent of households were available at the end of 2022. Finland also lagged behind compared to the Baltic countries.
Fibre-optic networks are being built faster than before in single-family house areas in cities and urban areas, as new active operators have entered the market and the supply of networks has increased. In the most sparsely populated areas, networks are unlikely to be built on market terms, and additional efforts will be needed to build them.
