Information Communication Technology in Mongolia

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Information Communication Technology in Mongolia

• 7th APNG Camp

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Content

• Country overview
• Pace of technology penetration
• ICT development of Mongolia
• ICT infrastructure of Mongolia
• ISPs
• Cellular network
• Internet network
• Datacom is . . .

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IT development of Mongolia Contd

• Mongolia is a huge landlocked country in Northern
  Asia, between China and Russia. The terrain is
  semi-desert and desert plains with mountains in
  the west and southwest.

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Country overview Mongolia is

• Population 2.5 million
• Area 1,565,000 sq km
• Capital City Ulaanbaatar (estimated
  population 788,000)
• Religion Buddhist
• Life Expectancy 68 years
• GDP per capita 2,200
• Population density 1.5 / sq. km
• Administration 18 provinces, 8 towns
• Government Parliamentary, President
  elected
• Major trading partners China, Russia Korea
• Privatization program started in 1997
• Internet domain MN

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Pace of technology penetration

• 1994
  2005
• phone (per 100) 1.7 5.14 (85
  in UB)
• PCs (total) lt100
  gt70000
• Internet users No 7 ISP,
  gt280, 000
• Cellular users No 390000 (90
  in UB)
• Cable TV No gt58,000 (90
  in UB)
• PC supplement/usage rate in companies and
  government are high, but the rate at home is low
  which is about  50.
• The Internet services are in poor conditions due
  to the connection problems more than 50 of the
  users are using modems or they do not have
  connections, and less than 10 use Internet at
  home.

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IT development of Mongolia

• The Mongolian Parliament ratified Vision 2010,
  giving policy direction to the use of ICT as a
  tool for development in 1998.
• Learning institutions work hard to build the
  future ICT-capacity.
• Mongolia has connected its fiber optic line to
  China and Mongolia also has connected to the
  Trans Siberian Internet Backbone.
• The countryside citizens connect in remote areas
  with each other and the outside world, thus
  providing much needed, up to date, practical
  information to support their daily livelihoods.
• UNDP MN, MnDG, Soros foundation and stakeholders
  in ICT in Mongolia work jointly in the
  development of e-business through the
  MIDAS-project.

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Capacity building

• What has not been achieved
• Due to lack of adequate number of working
  computers in public high schools at the rural
  level and lack of sufficiently trained teachers,
  most students do not exposure to ICT.
• Not enough jobs are getting created to absorb the
  ICT-trained human resources.
• ICT-based education is not a policy priority.
• In government recruitment and promotion, IT
  skills is still not taken into consideration.
• IT Incubator has proved to be hardly effective
  so far.

• What has been achieved
• Computer science as a course has been introduced
  at the high school level, but has not been
  mandatory.
• Almost all public and private universities pay
  particular emphasis on the training students in
  ICT-related fields.
• Private IT training courses have sprung up in
  large numbers over the past few years in major
  urban centers.
• IT Incubator has been established by Government.

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ICT infrastructure

• The ICT in Mongolia can be classified as follows
• Transmission systems
• Interconnection
• Fixed network
• Cellular and wireless
• Internet and data network
• Broadcasting TV, radio and CATV network

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ICT infrastructure contd.Telecom market growth

• The adoption of new technologies in telephony
  communication sector is extremely rapid compared
  with the traditional technology.
• The growth rate of cellular telephony is very
  high while that of fixed telephony is tied up.
• The growth number of mobile and fixed
  subscribers

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ICT infrastructure contd.Cellular
network

• 2 operators provide cellular telephone service
• CDMA and GSM technology and almost all provinces
  and urban areas.
• Mobicom network began operations in 1996, 88
  shares by Japan, CSM
• Skytel network started operations in 1999, 60
  shares by SKTelecom Co and Taihan Electric Wire
  Co, Korea, CDMA

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ICT infrastructure contd.Internet
network

• Internet connection, 1994, Datacom
• 7 ISPs Magicnet (branch of Datacom), Bodicom,
  MCS, Micom, Railcom, Mobicom, Onet and Erdemnet
• Total bandwitch of the international Internet
  gateway is 19.5 Mbps

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ICT infrastructure contd.Internet
network

• Market shares of ISPs in Mongolia

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Connecting method

• Only 280, 000 citizen accesses to the Internet,
  of which connection is done is modem.
• Companies also mainly use modem to connect
  Internet, Government uses LAN.

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DataCom is . . .

• The first ISP in Mongolia
• Established in 1990
• Datacom
• MN Domain Registry
• Magicnet LLC (Internet and data networking)

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MN domain registry

• Datacom is involved in administering the Domain
  Name System (DNS) and has responsibility for
  registration of MN domain names.
• MN Domain Registry was established on April, 1998
• Domain Name Registration Policy
• First come, first served registration
• No local presence required
• No special registration restrictions
• Multiple-year registration
• More details available on http//www.nic.mn

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MN Domain Structure
Commercial registration .MNNon-commercial
registration .GOV.MN .ORG.MN .EDU.MN
.MN domain name - 2380 Overseas registrant
approx. 1280 (appox. 38 from
Minnisota, USA ) Domestic registrant approx. 1100

• .MN

Reserved domain names COM.MN NET.MN MIL.MN
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Datacom is . . . Contd.

• Datacom created the following first networks in
  Mongolia E-mail network X.25 network between
  the cities Wireless network VSAT - Satellite
  connection
• Datacom provide the following types of Internet
  connections
• Dial-up service (ordinary telephone line up to
  56K speed)
• Wireless connection (10Mb)
• VSAT connection (2Mb)

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• Thank you.
• burmaa_at_datacom.mn
• System Engineer, Datacom Co, ltd