While Mongolia’s information and communications technology (ICT) industry is relatively young by international standards, the country is widely regarded as an emerging centre of technology in Asia. The government, alongside a handful of leading private sector companies, has invested heavily in the nation’s fibre-optic networks and other...
With rapidly rising demand for telecommunications services and increasingly intense price competition in the mobile market in recent years, Mongolia is poised for substantial expansion in the foreseeable future. Mobile subscriptions have expanded rapidly, from fewer than 160,000 in 2000 to more than 3m as of the end of 2012, according to data...
Mongolia had a relatively open and free telecoms market — that was until May 2012 when the government passed the Foreign Investment Law of Mongolia that, among other things, restricted investment in the key areas of minerals, banking, finance, media and communications. The law was primarily motivated by the growing concern that foreign interests...
Wi-Fi has never truly caught on in Mongolia. In its 2011 White Paper, the Information, Technology, Post and Telecommunications Authority (ITPTA) noted that only 0.2% of all internet connections were made using that method, which was even less than connections made using dial-up, which came in at 0.7% of the total. The most popular way of accessing...
On December 20, 2012, MobiCom extended its 3G network to Erdenebulgan soum (county), a remote area close to the Russian border with about 3000 inhabitants. For the company, which is the largest mobile operator in Mongolia, it was a significant step; it can now claim that it offers 100% 3G coverage in the country. Mongolia’s population density...
With one of the best internet infrastructures in the region, Mongolia is a technological surprise. Speeds are high, latency is near zero and restrictions are few. In tests done by Ookla, a broadband performance testing company based in Seattle, Washington, Mongolia’s download speeds were clocked at 11.89 megabits per second (Mbps) at the end of 2012...
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