Connectivity Scorecard › The Philippines | Nokia Siemens Networks
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Study created by Professor Leonard Waverman, London Business School, and economic consulting firm LECG, commissioned by Nokia Siemens Networks.
The Philippines
Connectivity
score 3.00
Executive Summary
The Philippines finishes 7th among 9 'resource and efficiency-driven' economies on the Connectivity Scorecard. It achieves a score of 3.00, compared to the score of 7.59 achieved by first-placed Malaysia.
The Philippines’ performance puts it above India and Nigeria in the Scorecard, but well behind sixth-placed China and very significantly behind South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia and Russia.
Philippines Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component
Areas of strength
Coverage of the country by mobile networks
Consumer usage and skills, e.g. literacy rates and the equality of gender access to the Internet
Business usage and skills - mobile e-mail usage, high percentage of prime working-age population with at least a basic (primary school) level of education
E-Government ranking and provision of online government services
Areas for improvement
Business infrastructure - including PC penetration, bandwidth availability, software and hardware spending by businesses