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Ecuador
Ecuador 2000 2009 Lower-middleincome group 2009 Latin America & the Caribbean Region 2009
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 200009 Current US$
8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 0 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
Sector structure
Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competitiona International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service Yes Public M P P Yes Public C C C
Ecuador
Sector performance
Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Fixed Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television set (%) Usage International voice traffic, total (minutes/person/month)b Mobile telephone usage (minutes/user/month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband subscribers (% of total Internet subscribers) International Internet bandwidth (bits/second/person) Affordability Residential fixed line tariff (US$/month) Mobile cellular prepaid tariff (US$/month) Fixed broadband Internet access tariff (US$/month) Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications E-government Web measure indexc Secure Internet servers (per 1 million people, December 2010) 9.9 3.9 0.5 2.2 14.7 100.1 4.1 13.0 83 12.7 57.8 5.5 4.5 18.2 89.5 7.7 11.5 85
65 1.5
81 15.1
330 17.2
114 31.5
9 6 3
80 3.1 2
84 42.9 484
77 40.1 151
92 92.0 1,408
Ecuador
0.9
0.44 15.3
0.29 2.7
0.43 27.5
Ecuador
Sources: Economic and social context: UIS and World Bank; Sector structure: ITU; Sector efficiency and capacity: ITU and World Bank; Sector performance: IMF, ITU, Netcraft, TeleGeography, UN Comtrade, UNDESA, UNPAN, Wireless Intelligence and World Bank. Produced by the Transport, Water, and Information Communication Technologies Department and the Development Economics Data Group. For complete information, see Definitions and Data Sources. Notes: Use of italics in the column entries indicates years other than those specified. Not available. GDP = gross domestic product; GNI = gross national income; ICT = information and communication technology; and MDG = Millennium Development Goal. a. C = competition; M = monopoly; and P = partial competition. b. Outgoing and incoming. c. Scale of 0-1, where 1 = highest presence. d. Millennium Development Goal indicators 8.14, 8.15, and 8.16.