WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 178 / 356
5.3.8 Barriers and future Opportunities for the PLC Technology
There are positive and negative aspects for the development of the PLC technology in
Eastern Europe, but before describing some of them, it can be useful to see how much the
Eastern European countries are investing in the telecommunication sector.
[E26] The European IT Observatory carries a detailed report showing the results of a survey
of IT and Telecommunications (ICTs) investment, use and policies in Eastern European
countries. Countries covered by the survey include Russia, Estonia, the Czech Republic,
Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
The first chart shows absolute levels of IT investment spend per capita. This is a good basic
way of assessing a country's existing preparedness for the Information Society and the
global networked economy. As might be expected, all the Eastern European countries
surveyed are well below the average for Western Europe, but two countries, Slovenia and
the Czech Republic, have a higher level of investment than Greece. Overall, the level of
existing investment in Eastern European countries is less than one quarter that of the West.