Data
The data for the different countries were collected from different, and to the extent possible, reliable resources. However in some cases the authors have used industry experts opinion, when the data was incomplete or missing.
In the first category, the mobile wireless penetration was collected and the HSPA standards status from 3G Americas report. The data for the business environment and also for the social and cultural categories were collected from the Economist's study (2008). The spectrum law effectiveness is calculated from the subscribers served per MHz of spectrum allocated. The available spectrum used for commercial use was collected from CTIA(2008) and the GSM world (2008) reports. In developed countries the available spectrum was usually over 300 MHz and in the emerging ones around 200MHz. To calculate the rate, the number of mobile wireless subscribers was divided to the available radio spectrum and then the data were normalized to the highest value. In the next category, the data on consumer spending on telecom services per household, was collected from Euromonitor database and then normalized. The active mobile wireless services were collected from Netsizeguide (2008). Finally in the last category both variables were collected from the OECD (2008) database.
Results
The results are presented in Figure 1. Most of the countries' score is in a scale between 2 and 5. The developed countries as expected are ranking in the top-10 list, with the rest of the countries, Brazil, Russia, China and India in the lower part.
Country
|
Overall score
|
Connectivity and technology
|
Business environment
|
Social and cultural
|
Legal
|
Consumer
|
ICT spending
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Category Weight
|
20%
|
15%
|
15%
|
15%
|
20%
|
15%
| ||
1
|
USA
|
3.619
|
1.86
|
8.53
|
9.00
|
1
|
1.49
|
1.13
|
2
|
Denmark
|
3.606
|
2.22
|
9.65
|
8.67
|
0.664
|
1.28
|
0.39
|
3
|
Australia
|
3.432
|
1 99
|
8.59
|
9.13
|
0.846
|
0.94
|
0.40
|
4
|
Finland
|
3.382
|
2.10
|
8.4
|
8.3
|
0.658
|
1.55
|
0.33
|
5
|
Germany
|
3.323
|
2.13
|
8.36
|
8.00
|
0.361
|
1.58
|
0.48
|
6
|
Netherlands
|
3.240
|
1.09
|
8.55
|
8.07
|
0.217
|
2.00
|
0.64
|
7
|
Sweden
|
3.227
|
1.12
|
8.52
|
8.6
|
0.658
|
1.65
|
0.28
|
8
|
Switzerland
|
3.357
|
1.06
|
8.57
|
8.27
|
0.292
|
1.80
|
1.44
|
9
|
UK
|
3.192
|
1.23
|
8.61
|
8.13
|
0.245
|
1.51
|
0.64
|
10
|
Japan
|
3.186
|
1.81
|
7.39
|
7.87
|
0.359
|
1.89
|
0.68
|
11
|
Canada
|
3.184
|
1.59
|
8.63
|
8.13
|
0.128
|
1.36
|
0.40
|
12
|
Hong Kong
|
3.176
|
2.22
|
8.64
|
7.47
|
0.188
|
1.18
|
0.34
|
13
|
Brazil
|
2.732
|
1.78
|
7.01
|
6.13
|
0.200
|
1.36
|
0.70
|
14
|
Russia
|
2.264
|
1.16
|
6.19
|
5.33
|
0.656
|
0.88
|
0.20
|
15
|
China
|
2.219
|
0.88
|
6.49
|
5.53
|
0.266
|
0.42
|
0.78
|
16
|
India
|
2.116
|
0.19
|
6.53
|
5.33
|
0.229
|
1.01
|
0.42
|
Figure 1: 4G-readiness ranking
The emerging markets such as China, and India, are expected to move up. Russia is surprisingly lagging behind the developing markets, revealing inefficiency to the LTE path
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