Increasing Broadband Internet Penetration
In the OIC Member Countries
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mobile broadband can be estimated for specific regions and countries. The fixed broadband
demand gap calculation extrapolates the population covered (statistic presented in table 12) to
households covered and calculates the difference of this metric with households connected
(see table 14).
Table 14: Fixed broadband demand gap (2015)
Country Households Covered (%) Households Connected (%) Demand Gap (%) Malta 100.00 116.83 (*) 0
Switzerland 98.00 106.51 (*) 0
Canada 93.50 95.73 (*) 0
France 99.70 100.37 (*) 0
Iceland 92.00 92.24 0
Ireland 96.30 93.51 2.79
Netherlands 100.00 97.05 2.95
Luxembourg 100.00 96.26 3.74
Norway 94.40 89.83 4.57
Israel 100.00 94.47 5.53
Denmark 99.10 93.34 5.76
Cyprus 100.00 93.89 6.11
Greece 99.60 92.62 6.98
Slovenia 88.70 81.10 7.60
New Zealand 93.00 84.20 8.80
Belgium 99.90 90.51 9.39
United Kingdom 100.00 90.26 9.74
United States 96.00 83.20 12.80
Portugal 99.70 85.98 13.72
Spain 96.50 82.46 14.04
Estonia 87.30 72.24 15.06
Japan 98.00 82.13 15.87
Australia 92.00 73.44 18.56
Germany 97.50 78.86 18.64
Sweden 99.00 75.62 23.38
Hungary 94.40 70.47 23.93
Finland 96.70 69.84 26.86
Czech Republic 98.50 69.71 28.79
Romania 90.00 60.21 29.79
Austria 99.10 67.64 31.46
Lithuania 97.10 64.48 32.62
Slovakia 85.30 52.30 33.00
Poland 87.60 54.25 33.35
Bolivia 41.37 7.16 34.21
Uruguay 100.00 65.66 34.34
Bulgaria 92.50 58.15 34.35
Italy 98.60 61.74 36.86
Argentina 95.98 58.69 37.29
Latvia 93.10 54.09 39.01
Mexico 92.00 52.54 39.46
Chile 98.66 57.51 41.15
Ecuador 87.00 45.18 41.82
Colombia 96.00 42.63 53.37
Costa Rica 94.86 40.43 54.43
(*) A higher number of connections than coverage could indicate two lines per household in some cases
Sources: International Telecommunications Union; Telecom Advisory Services analysisDemand gap <10% Demand gap between 10% and 20% Demand gap >20%