Policy and Regulations of ICT sector in Policy and Regulations of ICT sector in Mongolia 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-2010Istanbul. Turkey

April 2010

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Content of the presentation:

Current regulatory environment in MongoliaCurrent regulatory environment in Mongolia

Future actions and projectsFuture actions and projects

ICT sector legal environment and policy ICT sector legal environment and policy

ICT sector market and statisticsICT sector market and statistics

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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

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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

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.

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Governmental structure for ICT sectorpolicy and regulation

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Information and Communication Development

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Legal and Regulatory Framework

Infrastructure development

Leadership and Reform

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ICT-enabled Economic

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ICT Skills and Human

Resources Development

Implications

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.

Designing and implementing new businesses such as e-Commerce, e-Tax, e-Custom, e-Payments, e-Procurement, e-Health, and e-LearningEstablishment of an electronic system to expand civil participationsEstablishment of a unified Information exchange network among Gov. agenciesRequirement for the leadership at all levels of e-Government executionRequirement for legislating laws and regulations on ICTNeed to build high speed transmission networks throughout MongoliaEstablishment of nation-wide Digital Community Centers for businessReduction of the Internet connection fees

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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.

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);

ICT/Telecommunications infrastructure

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Length of fiber optic network /Km/

Total 11.207 km Fiber optic network covering 148 cities, province (aimag) centres, Soum centres, small towns.

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

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

ICT market in Mongolia (internet)

ICT market in Mongolia (CATV)

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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)

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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

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

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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

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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