Chile’s high score on the Connectivity Scorecard is no surprise

Chile is close to a top performer on broadband penetration and coverage of the population by mobile telephony.  It also performs well on fixed-line and mobile penetration, although it does not score as highly as one might expect on mobile penetration.  Chile scores well on most measures of consumer usage, too.

Turning to business metrics, PC penetration is high, and Chile scores highest on availability of international bandwidth as well as data revenue per capita. However, business spending on hardware and software is at a surprisingly moderate level.  On the business usage measures, Chile’s score on international traffic levels pulls down its overall performance somewhat.  The country has a relatively high secondary school enrolment rate, consistent with its high human development score.

Chile gets a high score in terms of its E-Government rating, but not perhaps as high a score as one might have expected: the relative score of 0.86 is below that of Brazil and Malaysia.

Chile Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component