mobilebroadband services are offered in only per cent of the ldcs however in those countries where the service is offered handsetbased prices more than halved in ppp terms between and and currently account for per cent of gni per capita still mobilebroadband cannot always replace fixedbroadband internet access especially in the business sector and a growing number of applications require higher speeds and better connection quality figures on mobile internet traffic show that the amount of data consumed by each subscription is increasing in most countries for which data are available