Infrastructure And Business Metrics Lower Connectivity Ranking For The Philippines.

Connectivity ratings for consumer infrastructure affect the Philippines’ rating on the 2009 Connectivity Scorecard.  Broadband penetration is characterized as being quite low, and the country’s infrastructure in general receives below average or middling scores for each metric.  Consumer usage is much better, with egalitarian gender access to the internet, heavy text messaging habits and a fairly good literacy rate. 

In terms of business connectivity, the only positive ranking for the Philippines is secondary school enrolment, which is good but still below the median for the nations sampled.  All other areas of business connectivity see the Philippines ranked on the low end of the scale.  The country’s E-Government ranking is good, despite a lack of strong government spending on IT resources.

The Philippines’s deregulated telecommunication sector offers hope that foreign investment can help to improve the nation’s basic connectivity infrastructure and increase broadband, wireless and PSTN penetration.

The Philippines Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component