II. General Strategy of Telecommunication Development

The Master Plan for 2010 of Mongolian telecommunication sector sets the general development strategy of the sector. In order to implement the Master plan the following activities will be carried out by developing the proper technological and investment policy:

1. digitalise and expand the integrated telecommunication network of the country;
2. select and utilise the most suitable terristrial and satellite technologies for rehabilitation and expansion of the integrated network;
3. introduce optic fibre in the trunk lines of the urban areas and copper cables and wireless solutions in the subscriber local loop;
4. encourage involvement of domestic and foreign private capital in satellite and mobile private networks;
5. implement digitalisation of the network step by step starting from the core networks of the capital city Ulaanbaatar and the most populated main cities such as Darkhan, Erdenet and province centres down to the to somon centres and rural areas by replacing the switching and trunk transmission facilities. The telephone density of the urban areas will be increased up to 20 phones per 100 inhabitants in the Ulaanbaatar capital city and 12-15 in the other cities and province centres respectively by the year 2010;
6. increase the coverage and availability of IDD and STD services by improving the effeciency of utilisation of the existing capacity of the international and long distance network.
7. improve the technical reliability of the international telecommunication network, establish additional high speed international satellite routes, develop domestic long distance network in consistance with the development of economic zones introducing digital SDH and ATM transmission technologies.
8. make proper and cost effective solution in power supply using solar and wind resources;
9. provide the opportunities to introduce and develop business, commercial, industrial, financial and other types of services by expanding the all kinds of information exchange services such as telephone, e-mail, Internet, facsimile, mobile phone, telex, pager etc.
10. provide the customers with the access to all kinds of information database and establish all the technical pre-conditions necessary for connecting to the international data communication networks by creating the country’s integrated information network based on the basic PSTN network and new satellite communication systems, cost of which is not dependent from distance;
11. pursue a policy to make the most cost effective solution for provision of services to the remote rural areas by using the technologies which are the most suitable for the country’s condition such as point-to-multipoint system, WLL, cellular, radio and paging systems etc.