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Technical surveillance authority admits being out of depth.

Mobile operator Elisa claims that competitor EMT has set up its 4G LTE network hurriedly and made several mistakes that have led to deteriorating 3G coverage reported by hundreds of its clients. EMT was handed Estonia's first 4G license in May as a result of a competition and therefore only had to pay 1 million euros for the license whereas Elisa was forced to part with 5 million for finishing second. The Estonian Technical Surveillance Authority (TJA) that issued the license now admits it has no practical experience as concerns construction of cellular networks and that it is therefore difficult for the agency to comment on Elisa's claims. Member of the board of Elisa Andrus Kaarelson claims that EMT only had a few weeks to get its network up and running and that the competitor reconfigured existing 3G antennas to carry 4G signal. PR chief of EMT Kaja Sepp refutes Elisa's claims and says the company has been working on its network since 2010 and that its decision to use existing technical capacities does not in any way impair the quality of its 3G signal. Sepp added that, according to the TJA, EMT offers the fastest mobile internet in Estonia.

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