Wireless technology will play a critical role in achieving ubiquitous broadband coverage. In particular, mobile broadband will be essential to the delivery of services such as m-health and m-learning, which will be instrumental in enabling governments to meet, by 2015, the connectivity targets of the World Summit on the Information Society and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Increasing broadband use by 10 per cent is estimated to increase a country's gross domestic product (GDP) by more than 1 per cent. Broadband is considered to be a key enabler for the digital economy, but a delay in spectrum allocation could impede growth.
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