LAHORE – Pakistan has been ranked as the world’s best country for the Telecom and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services with regards to their monetary affordability.
World Economic Forum (WEF) has published its annual “Global Information Technology Report 2016”. The report has brought forth that Pakistan’s technology and telecom market had the world’s lowest price points as compared to other markets from around the globe. The report analysed the relevant indexes from about 139 global markets and rated them against each other. The countries were rated for their financial conditions as well as other factors such as usage, general environment, and impact.
The report sufficed different rating levels (Indexes, Subindexes and Pillars). The countries were rated at the fundamental rating level of pillars. Different pillars then added up to the concerned subindexes. The subindexes were aggregated to the ultimate index, called as Networked Readiness Index, on which Pakistan ranked 110 out of 139, as compared to 112 of last year.