ICT infrastructure indicators and statistics in Mongolia

The following data from Narantsetseg describes the state of ICT and Internet use in Mongolia

• Telephone density/100 inhabitants: 4.1 in Mongolia as a whole and 10.5 in UlaanBaatar
• Main telephone lines in operation: 96,000
• Number of cellular telephone subscribers: 5,300
• Number of Internet subscribers: 4,500
• Number of paging service subscribers: 3,300
• Number of households with cable TV: 25,000
• Number of telecommunications services operators: 2
  • Mongolia Telecoms Company (MTC)
  • Mongolia Railways
• Number of cellular services providers: 2
• Number of Internet service providers (ISPs): 5
• Number of providers of paging services: 2
• 70 % of the market for Internet services is made up of business users, including government, etc.
• Approximate total bandwidth to the Internet: about 1.28Mbps, not including DirecPC (400Kbps/)
• Main connection to the Internet backbone: satellite
• Connections in Mongolia use several vehicules:
  • telephone dial-up
  • leased-lines
  • VSAT
  • Wireless connection