Getting a line into a Lithuanian flat is cheap by any European standard, and the fixed network under your feet is almost entirely optical. What surprises people is not the price but that the price you can see and the price you will pay are decided by two different things — the operator's published rate card, and whose cable already runs into your building.
Every headline monthly figure here is a 24-month figure, and three of the seven operators will not quote a per-tier price until you give them an address. So the useful question is not who is cheapest; it is who can reach you, and what the discount costs you if you move.
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Fibre, Cable and Fixed Wireless
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Three technologies are sold to Lithuanian households, and the difference between them decides what you can complain about later.
| Fibre (šviesolaidinis) | Copper broadband (plačiajuostis) | Fixed wireless (5G) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What reaches the building | Glass | Glass to the exchange, copper to you | Nothing — a radio link |
| Typical top speed sold | 2,500 Mb/s | 250 Mb/s | 1,000 Mb/s claimed |
| Upload | Usually symmetric | Far slower than download | Shared with every other user on the mast |
| Who sells it here | Telia, Tele2, Cgates, INIT, Balticum, Splius | Telia | Telia, Bitė, Tele2 |
| Install | An engineer, and a hole | An engineer, usually no hole | A box you plug in |
| Works in a rented flat without works | Only if the building is already wired | Only if the building is already wired | Yes |
Fibre is the default, and it is why Lithuania's numbers look the way they do. The European Commission's country report makes the point precisely: coverage by fibre to the premises and coverage by very high capacity network are virtually identical here, because hardly any other kind of fixed network is left. Cable television networks were converted rather than defended, and the surviving copper is sold by one operator as a fallback.
Fixed wireless is the newcomer and not a poor relation. Bitė sells no fibre to households at all — every home product it lists is 5G or 4G — and Tele2 and Telia sell a 5G home box beside their fibre. With 99.72% 5G coverage and 99.12% in rural areas, that is a serious answer rather than a stopgap.
A gigabit plan is not always a gigabit line
Roughly 40% of what counts as fibre in Lithuania is fibre to the building, with a copper drop to the flat door: the optics stop in the basement and the last twenty metres are old cable. It is still counted in the coverage statistics, and it is why two neighbours on the same advertised tier measure very different numbers. Ask what arrives at the flat, not what arrives at the block.
Who Actually Sells It
Seven operators sell a fixed line to a Lithuanian household. Three are the national telecoms; four grew out of cable television and regional fibre, and two of those publish their prices most honestly.
The market is opening. The regulator's February 2026 review found competition sufficient in 24 municipalities and lifted wholesale access regulation there; 36 remain regulated, because Telia holds more than 93% of the national duct system. Seven years earlier the same test was passed in 2 municipalities. That is the best single explanation of why an independent network sells a gigabit for €13.90 in Vilnius while nobody sells anything at all in some villages.
INIT
Prints a price for every tier
Key highlights
Key features
- A published price for every speed tier
- Network fee inside the price, not extra
Plan details
- From
- €6.90/mo
- Top tier
- 2,000 Mb/s
- Install
- 3 working days
Summary
- A published price for every speed tier
- Network fee inside the price, not extra
- Vilnius, Kaunas and nearby towns only
- One service carries the whole network fee
Cgates
The largest of the cable-born networks
Key highlights
Key features
- The reversion price is printed, not hidden
- In most apartment stock in the big cities
Plan details
- From
- €9.99/mo
- Top tier
- 2,500 Mb/s
- Activation
- €19.95
Summary
- The reversion price is printed, not hidden
- In most apartment stock in the big cities
- The middle tier is hard to justify
- Moving address needs notice, and reach
Tele2
The cheapest published entry price on fibre
Key highlights
Key features
- Promotional and standard prices printed
- Its 5G home plans carry a fourteen-day trial
Plan details
- From
- €8.90/mo
- Top tier
- 1,000 Mb/s
- Installation
- €5.00
Summary
- Promotional and standard prices printed
- Its 5G home plans carry a fourteen-day trial
- Tops out below Cgates and Balticum
- A consultation before it confirms your address
Telia
Reaches more addresses, publishes the least
Key highlights
Key features
- The widest fixed footprint in the country
- Publishes the activation charge both ways
What Telia publishes
- Fibre from
- €14.95/mo
- Activation
- €29.95
- Router from
- €5.00/mo
Summary
- The widest fixed footprint in the country
- Publishes the activation charge both ways
- No per-tier fibre price at all
- The highest no-term activation of the seven
Balticum
A national fibre network out of Klaipėda
Key highlights
Key features
- The cheapest router rental here
- Strongest independent on the coast
Plan details
- From
- €8.97/mo
- Top tier
- 2,500 Mb/s
- Router from
- €2.00/mo
Summary
- The cheapest router rental here
- Strongest independent on the coast
- The address checker sits before the price
- A wide gap to the standard gigabit rate
Splius
Prices the contract term openly
Key highlights
Key features
- States the speed abroad too
- Mesh hardware is a named option
Plan details
- From
- €9.50/mo
- Top tier
- 1,000 Mb/s
- Setup, no term
- €58
Summary
- States the speed abroad too
- Mesh hardware is a named option
- A regional network, so most addresses are outside
- Its two lowest tiers are the same speed
Bitė
No home fibre, only radio
Key highlights
Key features
- Moves to a new flat the same day
- The router is part of the plan
Plan details
- From
- €13.90/mo
- Technology
- 5G and 4G
- No-term price
- €23.88
Summary
- Moves to a new flat the same day
- The router is part of the plan
- No fibre, so top speeds are unreachable
- The no-term price is materially higher
What the cards cannot fit
INIT prints a price for every tier without an address check, names the towns it serves rather than implying national coverage, and states its €4.20 monthly network charge inside the headline price rather than adding it at checkout — so a customer taking internet alone carries all of it. Cgates publishes promotional and standard prices side by side; its gigabit is cheaper than its 500 Mb/s tier on promotion, which makes the middle tier hard to justify.
Tele2 charges a one-off €5.00 to install against €29.95 at Telia, and prices its 5G fallback on the same page rather than implying it. Telia is the only operator still selling copper broadband, which matters outside the cities — but publishes no per-tier fibre price at all.
Balticum prints a committed and a no-commitment column for every tier, which nobody else does; its entry tier reverts from €8.97 to €16.50, and its registration fee of €10 is waived on an order placed online. Splius prices the term in three columns across five tiers from €9.50 to €25.50. Bitė prints both prices too, roughly €9.98 a month apart on the entry plan.
The Published Packages
Every fibre price the six fibre operators put on a public page, in euros a month on a 24-month agreement. Where both a promotional and a standard rate are printed, the promotional one is here and the reversion is in the notes.
| Operator | ~250 Mb/s | ~500 Mb/s | 1,000 Mb/s | Faster |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INIT | €7.90 | — | €13.90 | €19.90 at 2,000 |
| Tele2 | €8.90 | €12.90 | €17.90 | — |
| Balticum | €8.97 | €15.90 | €15.90 | €25.90 at 2,500 |
| Cgates | €9.99 at 300 | €16.90 | €14.99 | €29.90 at 2,500 |
| Splius | €18.50 at 350 | €21.50 at 650 | €25.50 | — |
| Telia | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
Telia's row is the one to read carefully. It publishes one starting figure per product family — €14.95 for fibre, €15.90 for copper broadband, €12.95 for portable 5G, €39.95 for premium 5G home — then a plan chooser that quotes no tier until it has your address. Connection it does publish: €29.95 on a 24-month agreement, €50 without one, router from €5.00 a month committed or €6.00 not.
The router is a real line in the budget and never in the headline. Balticum starts it at €2.00 a month, INIT at €2.50 on its three lower tiers and €5.50 on the top one, Splius at €2.00 for a plain unit or €6.00 for mesh, Cgates and Telia both from €5.00. Over a two-year agreement, €5.00 a month is €120 — often more than the difference between two operators' entire plans. Your own router works on most of these networks; ask before you rent one.
And the promotional rate reverts. Cgates's gigabit tier goes from €14.99 to €23.90, Balticum's from €15.90 to €27.50, Tele2's entry tier from €8.90 to €14.90. Each is published beside the offer rather than hidden — but the number you are agreeing to for the second year is the second one.
Installation, the Term and Leaving Early
The activation charge and the term are two ends of one negotiation, and Splius states the trade most clearly: setup costs nothing on a two-year agreement, €14 on a one-year and €58 with no term. Telia says it in fewer words — €29.95 committed against €50 not. The discount is the price of the tie, quoted openly.
What leaving early actually costs, in law. The regulator is explicit that compensation for ending a fixed-term contract early is the return of the discounts you were given, that it must be justified by real losses, and that it may never exceed what you would have paid to the end of the term — a provider may not claim revenue it merely expected. With 24 months the standard tie, the worst case is arithmetic you can do before signing.
Four other rules are not negotiable with the sales desk.
- An open-ended contract ends in five working days. Submit the termination and it must be actioned within 5 working days. A fixed-term contract runs to the notice period written into it.
- A worsening change gives you a free exit. A provider must give 1 month's written notice before changing terms against you, and you then have 3 months to leave without penalty.
- Switching itself takes one working day. Once the transfer is agreed, the switch must be completed within 1 working day. The paperwork between the two operators is what takes longer.
- Moving home is not a free exit. A provider owes you nothing at an address it cannot technically reach — and terminating for that reason is not its breach, so an early-termination charge can still fall due. Cgates asks for 15 calendar days' notice to move a service. This is the trap on a one-year lease: a 24-month contract outlives a twelve-month tenancy by a year.
Renting: What a Tenant Can Order
Most foreigners arriving in Lithuania rent, and the internet question lands in the first week. You can almost always order a service; you cannot always order works.
What you can do as a tenant
No owner's signature needed for any of these.
- Sign a contract in your own name at the address you live at
- Take over an existing line the landlord already had installed
- Order 5G fixed wireless, which is a box and a power socket
- Use the socket already in the hallway if the building is wired
What needs the owner
Any of these is a change to somebody else's property.
- Drilling through a wall or a floor to bring a new cable in
- Bringing a new operator into a building that has never had one
- Anything the operator's own rules class as installation works
- A contract the landlord wants in their name for the utility bill
Cgates's service rules require the client to create the necessary conditions and to obtain any permissions the installation needs — not to own the flat. The contract is yours; the wall is not.
The bigger constraint is the building rather than the landlord. Much of the apartment stock was wired by whichever operator got there first, and if one cable enters the block, one operator can sell you a fibre line into it — whatever the coverage map says.
A building association may not lock you to one operator
The regulator stated in April 2026 that a building's association must not restrict residents' right to choose an electronic communications provider and must create the conditions for that choice. Under the Law on Electronic Communications an infrastructure manager has to negotiate access and satisfy a justified request on fair and reasonable terms; another operator's presence, insufficient space or possible interference are not objective reasons on their own — the association has to evidence them. A refusal goes to the regulator, and either side may appeal to Vilnius Regional Court within 14 days of its decision. Building and renovation work permitted from 12 February 2026 must include fibre-ready infrastructure.
At the viewing, ask which operators serve the building and whether there is a live socket in the flat — it is on the checklist on our renting an apartment page, and it is the difference between a line next week and a line next month.
Mobile Internet Instead
For many arrivals a fixed line is the wrong purchase. Lithuania's mobile networks are unusually good — 99.72% 5G coverage against an EU average of 96.79%, and 99.12% rural against 88.88% — and the average mobile user here gets through 44.3 GB a month.
| Fixed fibre | 5G home internet | A phone plan and tethering | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest published | €6.90 | €12.95 | See SIM cards |
| Install | An engineer and a date | A box in the post | Nothing |
| Landlord involved | Sometimes | Never | Never |
| Survives a move | No | Yes, same day | Yes |
| Contention at 21:00 | None — the line is yours | Shared with the mast | Shared with the mast |
| Suitable for video calls all day | Yes | Usually | Depends on the cell |
Take the radio link rather than the cable if your lease is shorter than the 24-month contract, if the flat has no socket and the landlord will not authorise works, or if nobody in the household works from home. Take fibre if you upload as well as download, if two or more people are on video calls at once, or if you are staying put — upload is the part a mobile connection cannot match, and the part video calls depend on.
Before committing to 5G, check where the flat sits relative to a mast. Coverage that is excellent nationally can be mediocre through a concrete wall on the wrong side of a building, and a coverage checker answers the national question rather than the wall one. Tele2's fourteen-day trial on its 5G home plans exists for this.
What a New Arrival Needs
A fixed line is a contract with a Lithuanian company for a service at a Lithuanian address, and it is treated like one.
A Lithuanian personal code is normally required. Cgates's service rules list the asmens kodas among the data needed to conclude a contract, alongside your name, date of birth, address, phone number and email. That is the ordinary case, and it is why the internet is a second-week task rather than a first-day one: see asmens kodas for how the code is issued and when.
Without one, three routes remain open. A prepaid mobile SIM registered to your passport works from the day you land — see SIM cards. A 5G home box bought as a mobile service follows the same identification rules as a phone plan rather than the fixed-line ones. Or leave an existing line in the landlord's name, with the cost folded into the rent — common enough to ask about before you order anything.
You will also need a Lithuanian account to pay from. Operators bill monthly by direct debit or transfer, which is why the bank account comes before the router. Nothing here turns on nationality; it turns on whether the operator can identify you and take money from you every month.
Why You Can Trust This Guide
Each monthly figure, activation charge and router rental here was read from the operator's own published price page, and the card and the table carry the same number. Where an operator publishes no per-tier price — Telia does not — the table says so rather than inferring one from a comparison site.
The 5 working days on an open-ended contract, the cap on early-termination compensation, the 3 months to leave after an unfavourable change and the duty on building associations are the Communications Regulatory Authority's own statements of the law.
Every Lithuania-against-the-EU figure is from Lithuania's 2026 Digital Decade country report, including the two that are unflattering — rural coverage of 38.23% against 66.66%, and gigabit take-up of 4.81% against 26.97%.
No operator pays to appear or to rank higher, there is no form on this page, and each card lists what its subject does badly — including the one marked best, which serves a short list of towns and nothing else.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does home internet cost in Lithuania?
Published fibre plans start at €6.90 a month from INIT for up to 100 Mb/s and €8.90 from Tele2 for up to 250, both on a 24-month agreement; a gigabit runs €13.90 at INIT to €17.90 at Tele2. Add a router rental of €2.00 to €5.50 a month and a one-off connection charge between €5.00 and €29.95. Fixed wireless from Bitė starts at €13.90, equipment included.
Which operators actually sell home internet in Lithuania?
Seven. Telia, Tele2 and Bitė are the national telecoms; Cgates, INIT, Balticum and Splius grew out of cable television and regional fibre. Six sell fibre to households; Bitė does not — every Bitė home product is 5G or 4G fixed wireless, and it sells fibre to businesses only. Telia has the widest footprint and is the only one still selling copper broadband.
Why will Telia not show me a price?
Its pages publish one starting figure per product family — €14.95 a month for fibre, €15.90 for copper broadband, €12.95 for portable 5G, €39.95 for premium 5G home — then send you into a plan chooser that asks for an address before it quotes a tier. The connection charge is published either way: €29.95 on a 24-month agreement, €50 without one, router from €5.00 a month. Those are the only Telia prices this page states.
How long is a Lithuanian internet contract, and what does leaving early cost?
24 months is the term every headline price is quoted against. Leave early and the regulator's position is that compensation is the return of the discounts you were given, justified by the provider's real losses and never more than you would have paid to the end of the agreement — a provider may not claim revenue it merely expected. An open-ended contract must be terminated within 5 working days of your request.
Can I get internet in a rented flat without the landlord's permission?
You can sign the contract yourself — operators require you to be the customer at the address, not the owner. What you cannot authorise without the owner is installation works: drilling, running a new cable in, or bringing an operator into a building that has never had one; Cgates's rules put the duty to obtain permissions on the client. If the flat already has a socket, or you take 5G fixed wireless, no permission is involved.
My building only has one operator. Am I stuck with them?
Not as a matter of law. In April 2026 the Communications Regulatory Authority stated that a building's association must not restrict residents' right to choose a provider and must create the conditions for that choice, and that an infrastructure manager must negotiate access and meet a justified request on fair terms. Another operator's presence, insufficient space or interference are not objective grounds on their own — the association has to evidence them. A refusal goes to the regulator, whose decision either side may appeal to Vilnius Regional Court within 14 days. Building work permitted from 12 February 2026 must include fibre-ready infrastructure anyway.
Do I need an asmens kodas to order internet?
Normally yes for a fixed line: Cgates lists the personal code among the data needed to conclude a contract, alongside name, date of birth, address, telephone and email. Without one there are three options — a prepaid mobile SIM registered to your passport, a 5G home service bought as a mobile product under the same rules as a phone plan, or leaving an existing line in the landlord's name and settling it with the rent.
Is 5G home internet good enough to replace a fibre line?
For a lot of households, yes. Lithuania has 99.72% 5G coverage against an EU average of 96.79%, and 99.12% in rural areas against 88.88% — genuinely better than the European norm. It is the right choice on a lease shorter than the 24-month term, in a flat with no socket, or where nobody works from home. Fibre wins on upload and contention, which is what matters when two people are on video calls at once. Tele2 offers a fourteen-day trial on its 5G home plans.
Does Lithuania really have better internet than the rest of Europe?
Better in shape than in extent. The Commission's 2026 country report puts fibre-to-the-premises coverage at 78.3% of households against an EU average of 79%, and very high capacity coverage at 79.01% against 85.54% — level or slightly behind on reach. Those two numbers are virtually identical here because the fixed network is almost entirely fibre rather than a mixture of fibre, cable and upgraded copper. Rural coverage is the weak point at 38.23% against 66.66%, and only 4.81% of subscriptions run at a gigabit or above against 26.97%, though that share grew 70.3% in a year. The Commission's recommendation to Lithuania is about financing rural last-mile fibre.
What speed do I actually need?
Less than you are being sold. A household streaming and browsing is comfortable on 100 Mb/s, the cheapest tier every operator publishes. Two people on simultaneous video calls care about upload rather than download, which is where fibre separates itself from a radio link. Gigabit tiers matter for large transfers and many devices — and at Cgates the gigabit is cheaper than the tier below it on promotion, worth checking before you take the middle option.
Can I switch operator and keep my service running?
The switch must be completed within 1 working day once the two operators agree it — the paperwork before that is what takes time. Switching does not extinguish an early-termination charge on the contract you are leaving, so settle that first. If your provider has changed its terms against you, you have 3 months from the notice to leave without any penalty, which is the cheapest moment to move.
What happens to my contract if I move house?
Your provider will move the service if it can reach the new address, and Cgates asks for 15 calendar days' notice. If it cannot reach the address, that is not the provider's breach — so terminating for that reason can still trigger the early-termination charge. That is the strongest argument for matching your contract term to your lease, or for fixed wireless, which moves the same day and asks nobody's permission.
Sort the flat first, then the line
Which building you rent decides which operators can reach you, whether there is a socket in the hall, and whether the works are yours to authorise. The internet decision is downstream of the tenancy one, and much cheaper in that order.
Disclaimer
General information, not legal advice. Operators change their plans, their promotional rates and their activation charges frequently, and every price above is the operator's own as published on the date it was read. Confirm the current figure and the availability at your address with the operator before you sign anything.