Mongolian modern telecommunication history started in 1898 when the first telephone communication line was laid to connect Khyahta with Da Khuree (present Ulanbator) and made the first international call in 1930. Nowadays Mongolia uses satellite service for overseas calls.

It is possible to call abroad from the major hotels and local calls usually free. You can also make local calls at the phone booth around Ulanbator it usually cost 100 tugrik. For international calls it’s available at the post office or you can buy international calling cards from post office, internet cafes and currency exchanges. Most foreigners make international calls from the post office. Any foreigner visiting Mongolia can enjoy using mobile phones within GSM and CDMA systems. Today number of mobile users has reached 256.8 thousand. Nowadays, all aimags, except three, have access to cellular phone service provider in the country, is planning a $5.3 million investment to expand its CDMA system network that will transfer all customers in rural areas currently using the AMPS system.

Mongolia Telecom Company (MTC) is the national telecommunications company of Mongolia. MTC is a joint venture between the Mongolian government, which holds 60 per cent of the company, and the Korean Telecommunications Company, owning all remaining shares.

Mobicom is a Mongolian-Japanese joint venture and was formed on 18 March 1996 as the first operator company to introduce cellular telephone service in Mongolia.

Mobicom has selected Alcatel, France, one of the most advanced telecommunication technology suppliers, to equip Mobicom with the state-of-the-art digital system GSM technologies.

As a result of heavy investment in technology, Mobicom has managed to deliver its service to 106 province centers and towns throughout 21 official provinces including Ulanbator. Through number of service points in rural areas and 6 service points in UB along with 110 staffs in Dealer Companies and approximately 1500 contractual distributors, Mobicom serves nearly 466.000 customers. Mobicom is working consistently to expand network coverage to the towns along main roads and railway lines.

 Skytel is the one of the leading companies in the Mongolian Communication branch and it is considered as an official operator which provides and serves for 1/3 per cents of cellular phone markets.

Skytel has about 200 staffs and employees, 130 centers to place the unit cards for pre - paid services within Ulanbator city, 15 distributors /who can provide and serve for clients all kinds of services associated with CALLPLUS, ECONO and D20, SKYPHONE that included in pre - paid service/, main 2 departments and further, 30 branches and agencies that are localized at 20 provinces and larger sub-provinces and towns. Skytel currently provide approximately for 100 thousand client's demands in total.

Nowadays, main service is aimed to provide clients with variety services associated with D-20 for youth, CALLPLUS and ECONO included in pre - paid service, VIP CLASS, VIP 1000, BUSINESS CLASS and BUSINESS GROUP referred to post payment for cellular phone and SKYPHONE service of wireless basic telephone respectively.

Based on standard technology of CDMA 2000 1x system is high quality level, actively carrying out to sell cellular phones, to rent, to supply for wireless Internet or WAP service and other kinds of repairs for the clients demands.

Following Mongolian government tender Unitel Corps became 2nd GSM mobile system and 3rd mobile operator. Unitel corps officially established in 2006 June 26 and provided first service to customers. After a month later had 20.000 customers and delivered service 25 places around the Ulanbator. There are 2 kinds of services Happy Life, My Life and sell cards through 70 dealer companies.

Each village has a post office with a derelict phone from the past. Provincial capitals have been phone communications at the post office and usually an internet facility during work hours.

The internet was first brought to Mongolia by DataCom in January 1996. Mongolia. Recent years a number of Internet cafes have sprung up around Ulanbator, where you can surf the Web and access email accounts. The cost is around USD 0.4 per hour. Total speed of the outgoing line is reaching 1472 Kbit/s, whereas the incoming is 2592 Kbit/s. There are four main Internet service providers in Mongolia such as Magicnet, Datacom, Micom and Bodicomputer Co.,Ltd. Also, the number of internet cafes has reached 80.

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 Dialing Code: +976

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 12, FM 2, shortwave 13 (1998)
2006 update: Ulanbator now has 20 FM stations, including the community-based WIND-FM 104.5
Radios: 360,000 (1997)

Mobile Operators:
MobiCom GSM
Skytel CDMA
Unitel GSM
Mobile Users:
Mobicom: 450,000
Skytel: 100,000
Unitel: 20,000 (2006)

Commercial Television broadcast stations:
National Television broadcast stations: MNTV (Mongolian National Television)
UBS (Ulanbator Broadcast System),
MN-25 (MN Channel 25),
TV5 (Internet TV),
TV9  and other new TVs' are
TV8,
C1,
EduTV (Education TV),
Eagle TV (First Independent broadcaster in Mongolia)
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

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