Policy and Regulations of ICT sector in Mongolia J.Baatarkhuu,

1. Policy and Regulations of ICT sector in Mongolia J.Baatarkhuu, Deputy Director of Public administration and Cooperation Department, ICTPA, www.ictpa.gov.mn D. Nyamdorj, Director General, Legal, Information and Administration Department CRC, ww.crc.gov.mn Caspian Telecommunications Forum and Exhibition-2010 Istanbul. Turkey April 2010

2. Content of the presentation: ICT sector legal environment and policy Current regulatory environment in Mongolia ICT sector market and statistics Future actions and projects

3. Legal framework • Law on Communications, 1996 and 2001 • Law of Radio wave, 1999 • Postal Law, 2004 • Other laws: Civil code, Anti-Monopoly Law, Customer Protection Law, Company and Entity Law, Fair competition Law, and etc • Amendment of “Laws on Custom” tax-free for computer and its accessories and VAT exception for software products, 2005 • Law on Governments’ Special Funds (USO Fund-2% of all operators’ gross revenues), 2006 • Draft package law on ICT (Basic IT Law, Digital signature Law, e-Commerce Law, e-Governance Law), 2008-2010

4. Policy and Strategy • Mongolian Telecom Master Plan up to 2010, Ministry of Infrastructure-MOI, 1994 • ICT Vision up to 2010, Parliament of Mongolia, 2000 • Telecommunications Sector Mid-term Policy, MOI, 2001 • Medium Term Strategy and Frameworks for ICT sector, MOI, 2002 • “E-Government Master Plan” Study (2005-2010), ICTA and KIPA of ROK, 2005 • “E-Mongolia” National Program 2005-2012, ICTA, 2005 • Policy Guideline on GSM, 3G, WLL, CDMA-450 business in Mongolia, ICTA, 2006-2007 • Government Action Plan 2008-2012 year, 2008

5. Policy and regulatory organizations • The Information and Communications Technology Authority (ICTA) has been established in October 2004 with the purpose of coordinating ICT-related initiatives and support for the development of ICT in Mongolia wich was renamed In September 2008 as Information, communications technology and Postal Authority (ICTPA). It has been established under the direct auspices of the Prime Minister of Mongolia.   • The Communications Regulatory Commission of Mongolia (CRC) has been established as a follow-up of the “Law on communications” to set up a fair, effective and competitive environment in the ICT market for enterprises of any ownership and to create an opportunity to provide organizations and individuals with various high quality services through the use of the latest advanced technologies.

6. Governmental structure for ICT sectorpolicy and regulation

7. Vision of e-Mongolia This policy aims at establishing the information society and founding the knowledge-based society in Mongolia by enhancing extensive applications of ICT in all sectors of society. By 2012, Mongolia will become one of the top ten ICT developed countries per inhibitants in Asia. Public Awareness and Participation ICT Skills and Human Resources Development Legal and Regulatory Framework Interoperability and Applications ICT-enabled Economic Growth Leadership and Reform Infrastructure development Designing and implementing new businesses such as e-Commerce, e-Tax, e-Custom, e-Payments, e-Procurement, e-Health, and e-Learning Establishment of an electronic system to expand civil participations Establishment of a unified Information exchange network among Gov. agencies Requirement for the leadership at all levels of e-Government execution Requirement for legislating laws and regulations on ICT Need to build high speed transmission networks throughout Mongolia Establishment of nation-wide Digital Community Centers for business Reduction of the Internet connection fees Implications

8. Current regulatory environment in Mongolia • Establishment of the Communications Regulatory Council under the Ministry of Infrastructure (MOI), 1995 • Liberalization of international and domestic telephone service, cellular mobile market, 1999 • Amendment of Law on Communications, 2001 (Established the Communications Regulatory Commission-CRC as independent body from policy making authority) www.crc.gov.mn • Chairman and 6 Commissioners of the CRC appointed by the Prime Minister of Mongolia.

9. Current regulatory environment in Mongolia Main functions of CRC, Mongolia include: • Approving and monitoring the general terms of interconnection between networks; • Approving accounting methodologies for the setting of tariffs; • Approving and monitoring tariffs of dominant operators in the market; • Ensuring implementation of universal service obligations; • Developing and implementing a nationally integrated numbering plan; • Allocating and monitoring radio frequencies, • Settling disputes between license holders and customers, • Telecom/ICT sector basic data/information of collection and report to the related Government organizations (ICTPA, NSC);

10. ICT/Telecommunications infrastructure • Total 11.207 km Fiber optic network covering 148 cities, province (aimag) centres, Soum centres, small towns.

11. ICT market in Mongolia (fix.line tele-density)

12. ICT market in Mongolia (mobile, per 100 inh.)

13. ICT market in Mongolia (internet)

14. ICT market in Mongolia (CATV)

15. Mobile and WLL new services in Mongolia CDMA 2000 1x EVDO services (Skytel Company, 1999): • IDD, DDD • WAP • Wireless internet, DSL • Сall center IP PBХ, Billing system, Licensed software • WLL services GSM services (MobiCom, 1996 and Unitel Corporation, 2006): • IDD, DDD • GPRS • Leased line • IP Wireless • DSL, Internet Easy, Web2Call • Wi-Fi, WiMax, WLL services • 3G applications (2008) CDMA-450 license issued for rural and remote areas (2007)

16. Mobile and WLL new services in Mongolia NGN-CDMA-IP Network services (Mongolia Telecom) • IDD, DDD • Integrated VAS (Prepaid phone, IP centrex, Number portability, Conferencing …) • Multimedia services (IPTV, Open eye, Video conferencing …) • Broadband data services (File transfer, Application sharing, e-whiteboard ….) • Internet services (Web800, Voice internet…) • Wireless services (Interactive customer care services, Location services) • Personalization services (PCA, Simultaneous ringing ..) • CATV

17. Future projects • Government Action Plan 2008-2012 year, • National Development Strategy up to 2021 • E-Mongolia national program, 2008-2010 • National Program on Integrated Registration and Information, 2008 (NID, Zipcode) • Mobile service and public access point in rural areas, 2006-2010 (World Bank project) • Digital Radio and TV Broadcasting program (draft) • IP Based Information Infrastructure project

18. Future actions • ICT sector and information are basic fundament or supporting instrument for knowledge economy and economic development, • To provide legal environment in order to foster the new idea, creativity, and protest intellectual property, to share and interchange knowledge, to protest different sort of cultural heritage, to conserving social values in Information Era, • ICT sector cooperation with neighboring, regional and sub-regional countries (Caspian and central Asian countries), • To provide consistent environment of international standard localization of information security

19. Thank you for attention J.Baatarkhuu, Deputy Director of Public administration and Cooperation Department, ICTPA, www.ictpa.gov.mn D. Nyamdorj, Director General, Legal, Information and Administration Department, CRC www.crc.gov.mn