EESTI TELEKOM

ANNOUNCEMENT



CREATING PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURE



Estonian Telephone Company LTD, Estonian Mobile  Telephone LTD 

and Privador LTD, directed by the Law of Digital Signature 

accepted by Riigikogu (Parliament), will start to jointly develop  

public key infrastructure (TelePKI) for bringing  e-commerce as 

well as mobile services fast and safely to all the applicants.



ETC, EMT and Privador signed the minutes according to which  the  

innovative services allowing infrastructure will be developed and 

applied. The forming of work groups necessary for the establishment 

of infrastructure and their preliminary goals have been stipulated 

in the minutes.



TelePKI is the infrastructure that will be established in the 

cooperation of Estonian Telephone Company, EMT and Privador, and 

which allows to order and use  the services of Estonian Telephone 

and EMT  safely via Internet. 



Infrastructure will be launched on the ground  of ETC and EMT 

customer basis. Privador LTD,  owing the knowledge and experiences 

in creating PKI systems,  will participate in the project as 

technical adviser and consultant.



In case of TelePKI, its compatibility with the present and future 

projects, e.g. Estonian ID card is kept in mind and the same 

standards will be used. When Estonian ID card is taken into use, 

it will be very simple for TelePKI customers to use it. Thus, 

TelePKI can be taken as an accelerator in moving into new society. 

TelePKI enables to use the same safe services by means of mobile 

telephone as well as the computer with chipcard reader. 



TelePKI allows the better protection of the individual data of 

ETC and EMT customers. Everyone , who wants to use the electronic 

services will be provided with chipcard including  the user’s 

electronic identity (secret key) and it will be controlled by the 

user only within the whole using period.





Raul Kalev

PR-manager

+372 6460 220