Wireless local loop is another technology that has helped Mongolia increase accessibility to telecommunications and bypass fixed-line infrastructure.
Mongolia's Communication Authority has announced a plan to connect all sum center and a number of other settlements to cell phone services.
It will also help parents for whom mobile phones are the only way to stay in touch with their children attending boarding schools in the cities.
[15] While much of the country remains pastoral with countryside residents dependent on herding and agriculture, Internet access is widely available to urban populations.
[18] Citizens Information Service Centers (CISC) have been established in Ulaanbataar and six Aimags that are equipped to allow nomadic rural populations to receive internet access.
The criminal code and constitution prohibit arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence, however, there are reports of government surveillance, wiretapping, and e-mail account monitoring.
Defamation laws carrying civil and criminal penalties severely impede criticism of government officials.
[16] Moreover, in 2014 the Mongolian Telecommunications Regulatory Commission has published a list of up to 774 words and phrases, use of which is prohibited on local websites.
Internet users remain concerned about a February 2011 regulation, the "General Conditions and Requirements on Digital Content", by the Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC) that restricts obscene and inappropriate content without explicitly defining it and requires popular websites to make their users' IP addresses publicly visible.