The Information Society in Spain - Plan Avanza

Recent analysts’ opinions … (VI)
ICT Development Index 2009 (IDI), International Telecommunications Index. 02-03-
2009
• Spain is the country reporting the eighth highest index increase between 2002 and 2007 (jumping from
4.1 in 2002 to 5.9 in 2007).
• The improvement is mainly due to the performance of the “ICT usage” sub index (i.e., rises from 0.83
in 2002, to 3.5 five years later).
• Along with other 32 countries, Spain belongs to the “very high development potential index” group (out
of 154 countries analysed).
• Spain is the 34th country (out of 150), with the cheapest telecommunication prices, as witnessed by a
compounded fixed, mobile and a broadband service basket. Furthermore, Spain is placed amongst the
26 countries reporting the cheapest broadband services ahead of Germany, France, Korea or Iceland.
Spain, a country with a well-developed competitive market: ‘Vodafone and Microsoft
become allies to compete with Google and Telefónica’. Diario Expansión- 12-03-2009
• Vodafone and Microsoft have become allies to provide communication services to SMEs based on the
cloud computing concept. In doing so, Vodafone gets a new array of combined services so as to ble
able to compete with the main Vodafone´s competitor, Telefonica.
• The alliance will be set up in Spain as a pioneering country, thanks to the good results reached by
Vodafone´s Spanish branch in the corporate mobile communications sector.
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