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Mongolia Plans to Provide Full Mobile Coverage Across Its Vast Territory by 2028 www.open.kg
The Minister of Digital Development, Innovation, and Communications of Mongolia, Batshugar Enkhbayar, announced on Wednesday plans to expand the mobile network to cover all bags of the country — the smallest administrative units, including the most remote areas with small populations. This was reported by MiddleAsianNews.
Mongolia covers an area of 1,564,116 km², which is three times the size of France, and ranks 18th in the world by land area.
There are 1,650 bags in the country, of which 104 do not have access to mobile communication. At a press conference following a government meeting, Batshugar promised that all these areas would be connected to the mobile network by 2028.
According to the minister, internet connectivity across Mongolia will help address important issues, including the provision of government services in electronic format.
Currently, mobile networks, primarily 4G/LTE, cover approximately 95% of the population, but only 23.8% of habitable land has a stable signal. Large areas of steppe, the Gobi Desert, and remote mountainous regions remain without reliable coverage.
A national satellite is planned to be launched in 2027, which will provide communication in the most inaccessible places where building mobile towers is too expensive or impractical.
Since 2025, a 5G network has already been launched in Mongolia, focusing on Ulaanbaatar and the centers of aimags. Plans aim to cover 70% of the population with 5G by 2027. Major operators such as Unitel, Mobicom, Skytel, G-Mobile, and ONDO are participating in this project.
This initiative is part of a broader program in Mongolia called "Digital Nation," aimed at bridging the digital divide between urban and rural areas, supporting e-learning, telemedicine, smart mining, improving livestock management, and stimulating economic growth.
Among the challenges faced by the initiators are extreme climatic conditions, low population density, which complicates infrastructure development, and the need to implement hybrid solutions, such as a combination of mobile towers and satellites.
Published Date:2026-03-30
