MAP > Internet Providers in Mongolia

Mongolia possesses the liberalized as well as competitive telecoms markets served by various competing players and the incumbent operator which no longer holds the dominant share of the market. The growing popularity of mobile broadband has been able to underpin the overall broadband as well as telecoms development. The trend has been consolidating Mongolia’s position as the mobile-first telecoms market as well as shaping future direction of Mongolia’s developing digital economy. This country has been ranked position 14 out of the 34 countries with the Telecoms Maturity Index with a score of 42.

This does ranks Mongolia 7th last in market challengers category. The Asian Telecoms Maturity Index (BuddeComm), which is an index, on the scale of 0-100, which measures and also ranks relative maturity of the telecoms industry in all of the 34 nations, in Asia. About the other Asian nations, it has some moderate mobile penetration, the moderate mobile broadband penetration as well as low fixed broadband penetration. Penetration of the fixed lines in this country has expanded strongly over the last five years as a high proportion of the residences decide to take the fixed line access option.

Penetration has been predicted to increase slightly over the coming five years to the year 2022. There is continued migration from the fixed line services to the mobile operators, which have much higher availability in rural areas and access to the application and services in urban areas. The fixed broadband penetration in the country by the name Uzbekistan has remained low, and this is mainly due to the limited number of the fixed lines as well as the dominance of mobile platform. But, the market has developed strongly over the last five years from the very small base. Over the coming five years to the year 2022, moderate development has been expected to continue.

The major driver of broadband development among the general population is going to be affordable access to the relevant content. The country’s mobile market has enjoyed slow growth over the last five years in a fairly mature market. The High mobile penetration rates in this country have been indicative of healthy competition. The slow to moderate development has been predicted over the coming five years to the year 2022. The market is going to be constrained from the higher due to the strong local competition and a more mature market.

The mobile broadband has developed in an increasingly attractive preposition due to increasingly fast speeds offered coupled with the improving tariffs due to the strong competition among four mobile network operators.