UAE is the most connected Arab country, followed by Bahrain & Saudi Arabia

Arab Advisors, a research firm that specializes in communications, published its annual Total Country Connectivity Measure (TCCM) report. Not surprisingly GCC countries topped the list, UAE came first followed by Bahrain, Saudi, Qatar and Kuwait. I was surprised to see Libya in the sixth position, I though that countries like Morocco, Oman, Tunisia and Jordan would be more connected than Libya.

Many factors affect these figures like the size of the population, income, education, consuming habits, market liberation, and other factors that research specialists know better.

This report gives an indication on the size of connectivity in a certain country as it depends on the penetration of three main services: Land line, Mobile, and Internet. They mentioned in this report that if a county scored 60% that means at least 40% of the population are not using any of the three services, a 100% score doesn’t necessarily mean that the whole population use these services.

But how could the UAE score 329%? I mean if 100% of the nation is using the three services, shouldn’t the maximum score be 300%?

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