The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority FICORA surveyed 55 Finnish telecoms and 7 of their international partners. Over a third of the Finnish companies manage all of their communications services within Finland, and so apply only the terms of Finnish communications legislation.
The remainder provide services in Finland that are partially or wholly operated outside the country. Finnish telecoms are obligated to ensure the security of communications by their users regardless of where those operations are actually carried out. The same applies to foreign-based services they may sell to their customers in Finland.
FICORA is to open talks with telecom operators later this year about the security of international services.