Media News - Friday, April 11, 2008

U.S. gets high marks for its Internet network

The Global Information Technology Report issued Wednesday found that the United States now ranks fourth in the world, behind Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Last year, the United States was seventh. The study showed a number of global trends. Five Nordic countries were reported among the world's top 10. South Korea posted one of the most significant improvements in the last year, rising 10 places to 9th, and China moved up five positions to 57th. The study, which has been issued annually for the last seven years, seeks to draw a more complete picture of national network readiness. The study was done by Insead, a French business school, on behalf of the World Economic Forum, a policy and conference group based in Switzerland. It used an index generated from 68 variables, including market factors, political and regulatory environment and technology infrastructure rather than just bandwidth capacity and data transmission speeds. The Insead assessment offers a stark contrast to other appraisals based on single measures that have portrayed the United States as both lagging and declining in the broadband boom. Last year, a range of statistics on global bandwidth use indicated that the United States was trailing other industrial nations in both broadband network consumption and penetration as a percentage of population. (International Herald Tribune)

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