Mexico - Strong consumer infrastructure offset by a weak business performance

Mexico falls to eighth position among resource and efficiency-driven economies on the Connectivity Scorecard 2010 and trails Latin American peers Chile, Argentina and Brazil this year.

Mexico delivers its strongest performance in consumer infrastructure, with near universal mobile telephony coverage and modest fixed-line penetration. It also performs quite well on the government-related metrics. In addition, Mexican businesses report a relatively high personal computer penetration, which props up the country’s business infrastructure scores.

However, Mexico still needs to tackle the gaps in consumer usage and skills. Despite a strong consumer infrastructure, its performance in terms of mobile services adoption and internet usage is muted. Further weaknesses come to light in the business segment. Mexican businesses do not invest significantly in ICT hardware, software and services. In addition, the enterprise sector reports low availability of international bandwidth and below-par penetration of secure internet servers.

As the Mexican government encourages competition in the domestic telecommunications market, it is equally important to drive business investments in ICT so that the country can regain its position among the leading adopters and users of technology.

Mexico Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component