With the fourth-largest Facebook population, more than 42m users and Jakarta ranked the number two Facebook city, Indonesians are active online. The country is number five in terms of Twitter accounts, behind the US, Brazil, Japan and the UK, but its capital tweets more than any other city, according to Semiocast. About one in four Indonesians tweet...
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...
With mobile use in Malaysia having long surpassed the 100% penetration rate, market players are seeking to boost profits by increasing data subscriptions and non-voice value-added services. A number of increasingly affordable handsets, along with carrier promotions and subsidies, is driving rapid smartphone adoption – critical to boosting the data...
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