2.2. Is there an Internet or e-mail link to Mongolia?
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This article is from the Mongolia FAQ, by Oliver Corff with numerous contributions by others.
2.2. Is there an Internet or e-mail link to Mongolia?
The first e-mail link in Mongolia came into existence in
January/February 1995 and was not yet a continuous (i.e. 24 h/day)
operation but it seemed to work. It is still active and organized by a
commercial service provider, Datacom Co., Ltd. Mongolia. The address
is: bataa@magicnet.mn and requests to this address will most certainly
be answered by Bataa, the system operator. There are various types of
service charges. First, one has to open an account which is between
USD 20.-- and USD 100.-- depending on whether one is a private or an
institutional user. Then there is a monthly charge (starting with USD
5.-- / month), and in addition there is a volume charge for every kB
of data which is 30 cents. Despite these various charges, the
operation via e-mail is by far the cheapest because fax and DX
telephone costs are tremendous.
In 1999, many Internet providers have mushroomed at least in
Ulaanbaatar, and there are now too many Internet Cafés as can be
included here; they are easily locatable by their huge billboards like
the ones near the National University and the Baga Toïrog, the Small
Ring Street with Süxbaatar Square at its centre. Fares seem to be
around T1600.-- per hour, which is rather modest. The occasional
traveller to Ulaanbaatar can thus afford to stay in touch with home.
In addition, the Academy of Sciences which used to have its own
connection (UUCP) to the Internet via Dubna, Russia, has switched to
magicnet, too, in summer 1996, but this is history, and recently the
Academy can be reached via: nerguy@arvis.ac.mn for the Computer Centre
of the Academy. The other institutes which used to have an address at
Dubna are migrating too, and their new addresses will be provided in
due course.
Inner Mongolia University can be accessed by the URL
http://www.imu.edu.cn.
Inner Mongolia Polytechnical University can be accessed by the URL
http://www.impu.edu.cn.
By information of February 4, 1996, Buryatia can be reached via e-
mail. For first contact, you may communicate to root@inov.buriatia.su
(Communicated by Darima Socktoyeva, February 1996)
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