Localities will enjoy a drop in Internet service price

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The “Hour for solutions” weekly meeting on Wednesday focused on reducing Internet services prices in localities, within a policy on providing countryside people with equal access to information. About it was sounded by the Authority of Information Technology, Post and Communication head Ts.Jadambaa. The Premier Ch.Saikhanbileg told Jadambaa and an executive director of the “Communication Network” LLC P.Margad-Erdene to take concrete measures for providing the local inhabitants with the access to Internet, equal to those of the cities' people, and to start its implementation March 15. He also told Internet and mobile phone service providers to support this works and requested them to fulfill a promise about introducing the 4G service in the second-third quarters of this year. The cabinet is also realizing multi-phase policies dedicated to aimags' people, for example, a measure has been taken for abolishing a difference in petroleum prices in rural areas; a governmental direction has been issued to perform flights to the western aimags by large-scale airplanes. An interest rate has been reduced to loans for herders as well.