Connectivity Scorecard › Spain | Nokia Siemens Networks

Executive Summary

Spain finishes 13th out of 16 'innovation-driven' countries with a score of 3.56 out of 10.  Spain has the lowest score of any Western European nation included in our sample, finishing slightly below Italy.

Spain’s relative scores are low on virtually all the major categories identified.  Further analysis of the individual metrics that make up each category are also revealing.  They suggest that Spain does not achieve a relative score of greater than 0.6 (on a 0 to 1 scale, with 1 being the score achieved by the currently best performing nation) on any of the individual measures that form the consumer and business categories.  On only four of the 19 measures does it achieve relative scores of greater than 0.5 — and of these four measures (percentage of mobile revenues derived from data services, main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants, ICT user skills and ICT specialist skills), it is still below the average for the sample as a whole.

Consequently, there is no one area of particular strength or weakness for Spain.  Rather Spain tends to score low on virtually all individual measures, and on all the categories that these individual measures or metrics might be grouped into.

It is thus hard to say much about Spain’s performance on individual measures, since the problem is that Spain suffers from persistently weak performance on all fronts. 

Spain Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component