While it has strong infrastructure, Brunei scored 51 per cent in the recently released Pulse Internet Resilience Index (IRI) of the Internet Society, ranking third of 11 countries along with Malaysia and Thailand in the Southeast Asian region. It scored behind Singapore with 72 per cent, Vietnam with 52 per cent and Malaysia and Thailand with 51 per cent.
The Sultanate scored well in mobile network (with 72 per cent) and connectivity (with 71 per cent). The regional average is 49 per cent, higher than Asia with 46 per cent, Americas and Oceania with 45 per cent each, and Africa with 35 per cent, but below Europe’s 60 per cent.
-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin