Telecommunication, Broadband and Television Indicators 2015 published

Bureau Telecommunicatie & Post (hereinafter, BT&P) has collected data about the developments in the markets for telephone (fixed and mobile), broadband (fixed and wireless) and (television) broadcasting services through research (a survey) conducted among providers of services in these fields. The result of the survey is available for reading in the ‘Statistical Publication Telecommunication, Broadband and Television Indicators 2015‘.

The information in this report is based on the annual standardized survey of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which was distributed in 2015 to be filled in among service providers (‘operators’) in the field of telecommunication, broadband and (television) broadcasting. This ITU survey includes researching for each service what the development is of the number of subscriptions and appurtenant costs for the services provided.

ITU survey as research source

Over 200 economies worldwide take part in the annual ITU survey, on which, among other things, this benchmark research is based. The regulating bodies of various participating countries provide broadband and telecommunication data to ITU for this. The collected data are published annually by ITU in the ‘ITU yearbook of Statistics 2015‘, in which Curaçao has been included since 2014, as well as in the publication ‘Measuring the Information Society 2015‘.

As part of the research BT&P has compared the survey data of Curaçao with similar economies in the Caribbean, South America, Central America and the global average. BT&P also uses international research data and collected data (datasets) of recognized research institutions like the ‘Central Bureau of Statistics‘ (CBS) and the ‘Ookla Speedtest‘ for the benchmark research.

All the collected information provides a very significant contribution to the insight of BT&P into the current market situation in Curaçao as compared to other economies and besides this, it is a valuable indicator for the effectiveness of the applied policy measures.

(Source: Statistical Publication Telecommunication, Broadband and Television Indicators 2015. BT&P Publication period: 2016)