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Encyclopedia > Communications in Mongolia

Communications in Mongolia can be described as follows:

  • Telephones - main lines in use: 404,400 (2004)
  • Telephone system:
domestic: 6.5 Telephones per thousand persons
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean Region)
  • Telephones - International Dialling Code: +976
  • Radio broadcast stations: AM 12, FM 2, shortwave 13 (1998) 2006 update: Ulaanbaatar now has 20 FM stations, including the community-based WIND-FM 104.5
  • Radios: 360,000 (1997)
  • Mobile Operators: MobiCom GSM, Skytel CDMA. 2006 update: CityFone and Unitel (GSM) are recent providers.
  • Mobile Users: Mobicom: 450,000 Skytel: 100,000 (2006).
  • National Television broadcast stations: MNTV (Mongolian National Television)
  • Commercial Television broadcast stations: UBS (Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System), MN-25 (MN Channel 25), TV5 (Internet TV), TV9 (2006) and other new tvs' are TM, SBN, NTV, TV8, C1, EduTV (Education TV), Eagle TV (First Independent broadcaster in Mongolia) [1]
  • Television sets: 118,000 (1997)
  • Cable TV stations: Sansar CaTV and STV, Khiimori CaTV, SuperVision CaTV, Suljee CaTV
  • Internet Service Providers (ISPs): RailCom, Magicnet, Mobinet, Micom, Bodicom, MCSCom, Sky C & C, Sansar Internet
  • Country code (Top level domain): .mn
    • Internet users: 200,000 (2005)

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Mongolia at AllExperts (3154 words)
Mongolia (Mongolian: Монгол Улс), officially the 'Republic of Mongolia' is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
Mongolia uses a unicameral parliamentary system where the president has a symbolic role and the "government" chosen by the legislature exercises the executive power.
The fall of communism in 1991 allowed for religious practice to once again be made public and, as such, Tibetan Buddhism, which had been the predominant religion in the region before the rise of Communism, rose to once again become the most widely practiced religion in Mongolia.
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