Executive summary
Growing 3G penetration transforms Mongolia’s broadband market
Mongolia possesses a liberalised and competitive telecoms market served by multiple competing players and an incumbent operator that no longer holds a dominant share of its market.
Operators have focused on expanding network reach and capacity to support the growing popularity of fixed and mobile broadband services, doubling the amount of fibre optic cable in Mongolia within the past five years alone and extending into Mongolia’s sparsely populated rural regions.
The growing popularity of mobile broadband has underpinned overall broadband growth and coincided with a contraction in fibre subscriptions, suggesting some end users are migrating from fibre to mobile. Broadband growth in 2016 will continue to be underpinned by mobile, consolidating Mongolia’s position as a “mobile first” telecoms market and shaping the future direction of Mongolia’s developing digital economy.
High mobile penetration levels in Mongolia are indicative of healthy competition although the market is undergoing transition. Overall mobile penetration levels as well as mobile voice traffic is contracting while 3G accounts for an increasing proportion of total subscriptions, with the total number of 3G subscriptions expected to overtake 2G subscriptions by 2017.
Market highlights:
Mongolia Telecom no longer holds the largest market share in the fixed line market
Operators are investing in fibre to support future broadband growth
Total mobile voice minutes contracted for the first time in 2015
Mobile represents the dominant share of total broadband subscriptions
Mongolia has emerged as a “mobile first” country
3G subscriptions expected to overtake 2G by 2017Mongolia is a small country with predominantly basic telecommunications services. The report covers trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, internet and broadband. Subjects include:
Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
Facts, figures and statistics;
Industry and regulatory issues;
Infrastructure;
Major players, subscribers;
Internet;
Digital economy
Mobile voice and data markets;
Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV).
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1. Executive summary
2. Key statistics
3. Country overview
3.1 Background
3.2 Mongolia’s economy
4. Telecommunications market
4.1 Overview of Mongolia’s telecom market
4.2 Mongolia’s telecom market – financial statistics
5. Regulatory environment
5.1 Historic overview
5.2 Regulatory authority
5.2.1 Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC)
5.2.2 Information Technology, Post and Telecommunications Authority of Mongolia (ITPTA)
5.3 Government policies
5.3.1 Mongolia Telecom Company privatisation
5.3.2 Structural separation
5.3.3 ICT Vision 2021
5.3.4 ICT development white paper 2013
5.3.5 E-Mongolia 2012
5.3.6 National broadband program of Mongolia
5.4 Interconnect
5.5 Law on unfair competition
6. Fixed network operators
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Mongolia Telecom Company
6.3 Mongolian Railways Communications
6.4 Ulusnet (Mobinet)
6.5 Univision (Unitel)
7. Telecommunications infrastructure
7.1 Overview of the national telecom network
7.1.1 Rural services
7.2 Fixed-line statistics
7.3 International infrastructure (satellite, submarine)
7.3.1 Terrestrial cable
7.3.2 Satellite
7.3.3 Satellite program
7.4 Specific IT developments (data centres, cloud computing)
7.4.1 National data centre
7.4.2 National information technology park
7.4.3 Mongolia internet Exchange (MIX)
8. Fixed Broadband
8.1 Overview
8.1.1 Market analysis
8.1.2 Broadband statistics
8.1.3 Forecasts – broadband subscribers – 2016; 2018; 2020
9. Digital economy
9.1 Introduction
9.2 National ICT Committee
9.3 CIO Council
9.4 e-commerce
9.5 e-Government
9.5.1 E-government master plan 2005
9.5.2 E-Signatures
9.5.3 Electronic ID card
9.6 e-education
9.7 e-Health
10. Digital media
10.1 Cable, DTH and MMDS television services
10.2 Digital TV
10.3 IPTV
10.4 Mobile Broadcast TV
11. Mobile Market
11.1 Mobile statistics
11.1.1 General statistics
11.1.2 Mobile voice
11.1.3 Mobile data
11.1.4 3G Services
11.2 Major mobile operators
11.2.1 MobiCom
11.2.2 SkyTel
11.2.3 Unitel
11.2.4 G-Mobile
11.3 Mobile content and applications
12. Related reports
Table 1 – Country statistics Mongolia – 2015
Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – January – June 2015
Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – 2016
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – 2016
Table 5 – Mobile statistics – 2016
Table 6 – National telecommunications authorities
Table 7 – GDP and foreign direct investment: 2003 – 2018
Table 8 – Total revenue and investment of ICT sector and tax contribution – 2005 – 2015
Table 9 – ICT sector revenue breakdown – June 2015
Table 10 – ICT employees – 2008 - 2015
Table 11 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1990, 1995 – 2017
Table 12 – Total fixed network traffic – 2008 – 2015
Table 13 – Mongolia fibre cable deployed – June 2015
Table 14 –Internet subscribers – 2001 – 2015
Table 15 – Broadband subscribers per platform – 2012 - 2015
Table 16 – Broadband subscribers by location – June 2015
Table 17 – Internet users and penetration – 1995 – 2017
Table 18 – International internet bandwidth – 2000 – 2015
Table 19 – International and domestic Internet bandwidth by ISP – June 2015
Table 20 – Mongolia - Forecast broadband subscribers and penetration - higher band: 2016, 2018; 2020
Table 21 – Mongolia - Forecast broadband subscribers and penetration - lower band: 2016, 2018; 2020
Table 22 – Cable, DTH and MMDS TV subscribers – 2004 - 2015
Table 23 – IPTV, double play and triple play subscribers – June 2015
Table 24 – Mobile subscribers, annual change and penetration – 2007 - 2017
Table 25 – Historical - Mobile subscribers, total v. prepaid, annual change and penetration – 1996 - 2010
Table 26 – Prepaid subscribers – 2012 - 2017
Table 27 – Mobile operators and subscribers – June 2015
Table 28 – Total outgoing mobile telephone traffic – 1999 - 2015
Table 29 – SMS traffic – 2000 – 2009; 2012 – 2015
Table 30 – 3G subscribers – 2009 - 2015
Table 31 – MobiCom subscribers and market share – 2006 - 2015
Table 32 – SkyTel subscribers and market share – 2006 - 2015
Table 33 – Unitel subscribers and market share – 2006 - 2015
Table 34 – G-Mobile subscribers and market share – 2007 - 2015
Table 35 – Operating Systems – June 2015
Chart 1 – Total revenue and investment of ICT sector – 2005 – 2015
Chart 2 – ICT sector revenue breakdown – June 2015
Chart 3 – Mongolia fixed network operator market share – June 2015
Chart 4 – Fixed lines in service, teledensity and annual growth – 2003 – 2017
Chart 5 – Types of access to the internet – June 2015
Chart 6 – Cable TV subscribers per TV platform – 2004 - 2015
Chart 7 – Mobile subscribers annual change and penetration – 2007 - 2017
Chart 8 – Mobile operator market share – June 2015
Exhibit 1 – Map of Mongolia
