ITU Chief: Governments Need to Make It Easier to Deploy Next-Gen Mobile Broadband

The head of the International Telecommunications Union has called on mobile broadband operators around the world to deploy next-generation LTE wireless service, and advised governments to do what they can to ease that process, including cutting or abolishing taxes on equipment and service. ITU Secretary General Dr. Hamadoun Touré said that it is in everyone's interest that mobile broadband be able to deliver the high speeds necessary for video streaming and aps yet undreamed of, the same argument the FCC has been making for freeing up more spectrum for broadband.