Mexico. The International Telecommunication Union, ITU, released the ninth edition of the Report on Measuring the Information Society 2017, which measures the state of connectivity in the countries belonging to that organization. The report includes the Information and Communication Technologies Development Index (IDI), which compares the evolution of different economies over time.
According to the report, Mexico advances three positions with respect to last year in the IDI, positioning it in 87th place out of 176 economies in the world and as one of the 9 most dynamic economies in the Americas. This report also reveals a 20% increase in the number of households in Mexico with Internet service, which mexico went from 39.2% of households with Internet service in 2016 to 47% in 2017.
Active mobile broadband subscriptions also increased, from 51 to 58.8 per 100 inhabitants. Likewise, advances are recognized in the number of individuals who use the Internet, which went from 57.4% to 59.5%; and fixed broadband penetration from 11.8 to 12.7 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants.
As for the prices of different telecommunications services, the publication shows that in our country, cell phone costs are 4.5 times lower than the average of the American continent and 6.5 times lower than the average of prices in the world, measured as a percentage of gross national income per capita.
This year, the report on Measuring the Information Society gives an account of the regulatory policies that the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) has implemented to promote competition, especially the implementation of asymmetric regulation for dominant operators, as well as actions to encourage investments. In the same way, the ITU recognizes the measures that the Mexican regulator has taken to tender spectrum for mobile services.
The Report was released during the 15th World Symposium on Telecommunication/ICT Indicators. In this framework, the General Coordinator of Strategic Planning of the IFT, Luis Aldo Sánchez Ortega, presented the tool of the Telecommunications Information Bank (BIT), as an example of international best practice for data visualization.
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