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Proportion Of Population Covered By A Mobile Network, By Technology
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9.c.1 Proportion of population covered by a mobile network, by technology
Metadata
| Relevance/rationale of the indicator (resp. why the indicator was chosen to measure the target and how it is suitable for these purposes) | The percentage of the population covered by a mobile cellular network can be considered as a minimum indicator for ICT access since it provides people with the possibility to subscribe to and use mobile-cellular services to communicate. Over the last decade, mobile-cellular networks have expanded rapidly and helped overcome very basic infrastructure barriers that existed when fixed-telephone networks – often limited to urban and highly populated areas - were the dominant telecommunication infrastructure. While 2G mobile-cellular networks offer limited (and mainly voice-based) services, higher-speed networks provide increasingly high-speed, reliable and high-quality access to the Internet and its increasing amount of information, content, services, and applications. Mobile networks are therefore essential to overcoming infrastructure barriers, helping people join the information society and benefit from the potential of ICTs, in particular in least developed countries. The indicator highlights the importance of mobile networks in providing basic, as well as advanced communication services and will help design targeted policies to overcome remaining infrastructure barriers, and address the digital divide. Many governments track this indicator and have set specific targets in terms of the mobile population coverage (by technology) that operators must achieve. |
| Target value of the indicator and its evaluation | 99% of population, ensures coverage of vast majority of population, with the exception of remote places and solitudes that cannot be covered without unreasonable costs. |
| Definition | Proportion of population of the Czech Republic covered by a mobile network. |
| Measuring unit | % |
| Indicator disaggregation | By types of technology |
| Reference period (resp. the period to which the indicator relates) | Year |
| Related geographical area | CZ (NUTS 0) |
| Comment |
| Update periodicity | Annually |
| Time coverage since | 2005 |
| Time coverage until | 2022 |
| Time series available at the data provider since | 2005 |
| Data publication date (resp. the date when the data provider publishes (regularly) data; it is given in the format T + the number of days, months or years when T is the end of the reference period) | Data for each year (till 31st December) are published by 31st January of the following year. |
| Contact point - data provider - e-mail | VOSAHLOVAV@ctu.cz |
| Contact point - data provider - name | Veronika Vosáhlová |
| Data source | Czech Telecommunication Office |
| Data origin | Czech Telecommunication Office |
| Links to detailed metadata or methodology | https://www.ctu.cz/sites/default/files/obsah/stranky/vyhlaseni-vyberoveho-rizeni-2013/soubory/invitationtotender15082013appendix3.pdf https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-09-0C-01.pdf |
| Links to international comparison |