On the first stage, wireless and landline internet service became accessible in 118 remote soums and on the second stage, wireless internet network was established in 136 soums, providing soum residents with inexpensive internet service. During the third stage, the project launched today is connecting some 80 soums and settlements with wireless internet. Therefore, now 21 aimags and 285 soums are having a wireless broadband internet connection.

PM J.Erdenbat delivered speech at the opening ceremony. “- Every Mongolian citizen has a right to receive services and information of state organizations transparently, promptly and independently on location and time, gaining access to the most reliable and universal communication service. We are working with an aim to make state service equally accessible and inclusive, reaching for citizens of remote soum, settlements and the countryside, changing the current situation that citizens move to bigger settlements to receive state services. We are launching a project to newly connect 73 soums with wireless and landline internet in 2017 within ‘E-soum” project. The project will give benefits to over 800 thousand people in remote soums and settlements and it is essential to improve their involvement of state policy development, access of state services as well as to make state organizations operate transparently and without bureaucracy ” PM said.

Executive Director of “Mongolia Telecom” company M.Altan-Ochir said “ – Internet connection becomes available in all over the soum center territory. State organizations of soums including Citizens representative meeting, governor’s office, hospital, police, kindergarten and schools are connected to internet. Moreover people can use any device to be connected to internet. A total of MNT2.5 billion was spent for it. Our company also made some funding for it. We are in charge of the internet operation and services further”.
“Mongolia Telecom” company is now working on introducing ‘E-soum’ application for administrative organization of soums to establish interior network between organizations, distribute information promptly and to make state service accessible to citizens through internet.