Regulatory aspects of mobile broadband technologies

Global demand for mobile data services is rapidly growing. Numerous forecasts indicate exponential data traffic growth as mobile data usage has more than doubled each of the last five years. Over this past year, the need for additional spectrum has become particularly urgent, resulting in a number of new initiatives by industry and government. This is, consequently, driving the need for continued innovations in wireless and mobile data technologies towards mobile broadband, and new approaches in spectrum management and regulation. Regulators always face challenges when new technologies are introduced. The legislation is always a little bit late. The regulators need to either define how they apply the existing laws to new technologies and businesses either to quickliy adopt and apply new rules. In this paper we will consider regulatory aspects of major mobile broadband technologies such as LTE and LTE-Advanced, Mobile WiMAX and WLAN.