Connectivity Scorecard › Hong Kong | Nokia Siemens Networks
Nokia Siemens Networks
Study created by Professor Leonard Waverman, London Business School, and economic consulting firm LECG, commissioned by Nokia Siemens Networks.
Hong Kong
Connectivity
score 4.46
Executive Summary
Hong Kong is a middling performer on the Connectivity Scorecard, with its score of 4.46 placing it in 11th place out of 16 countries.
Hong Kong’s score may seem rather low at first glance given Hong Kong’s reputation as a regional economic hub. Indeed, Hong Kong typically scores highly on other indices. Much of this disparity is due to the more limited focus on consumer infrastructure measures adopted by other indices rather than the business sector and ICT usage metrics we have included. Hong Kong ranks 2nd behind Korea in terms of consumer infrastructure, but performs more modestly on the business and government elements of the Scorecard.
Hong Kong Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component
Areas of strength
Consumer infrastructure - mainline and broadband penetration
Business infrastructure – scores well on web hosting revenue per capita; reasonable scores on level of PCs per 1,000 and business data access line penetration
On the government side Hong Kong leads the way in terms of broadband access in schools
Areas for improvement
Software spending by consumers and mobile usage measures
Business hardware and software spending and secure Internet server deployment
Government spending on software, hardware and computer services and usage of ICT by teachers