HSPA (including HSPA+ and HSPA-evo) is Long Term Evolution or LTE. After being standardized globally initial deployments are now in progress in Asia, Europe and North America with the fi rst com-mercial US$ 800 billion over the next fi ve years, of which US$ 550 billion is earmarked for mobile broadband. However, a more “stable, predictable and minimally intrusive” regulatory environment and greater radio spectrum were sought as preconditions for further investment by the mobile industry. 79 services expected in late 2009 and early 2010 in the US, Japan, Sweden, Norway. Many mobile op-erators see LTE as a key upgrade for high-speed and Emerging markets will also be a major marketplace for this mobile Internet growth to occur. The re-search high-capacity mobile broadband services, creating additional momentum in product development and attracting a large number of competing vendors to the market. consultancy MobileSquared projects there will be over 300 million browser-enabled mobile devices in India by 2013, and of these handsets it is estimat-ed LTE can deliver higher broadband connection speeds and faster network response (“lower latency”) at a lower cost per delivered bit, thanks to a simplifi ed network structure and the use of wider spectrum bands than previous technologies. The availability of harmonized spectrum and wider spectrum bands per operator from agreements at ITU World Radio-communication that up to 70% will be 3G devices.80 Pyramid Re-search forecasts that mobile broadband will surpass fi xed broadband in Brazil by 2011, reaching nearly 27 million data card users in 2014, up from 1.5 million in 2008.81 The large mobile subscriber bases in developing countries could adapt quickly to mobile Internet access, although they remain relatively price-sensitive. Growing economies of scale could cut the cost of mobile broadband access and make it a mass market, especially in developing countries with limited fi xed access networks. Conferences enables economies of scale for all wireless technologies and the delivery of multi-megabit broadband also to rural areas that are expensive to serve by fi xed networks. The next evolution of the technology track initiated by GSM and further developed by WCDMA and While the fi nancial crisis has delayed some network investments, it has also sharpened the requirement Confronting the Crisis: ICT Stimulus Plans for Economic Growth 67