It will cost the mobile industry billions of potential dollars if the Federal Government doesn’t make a decision on new spectrum allocation this year, according to a report by the mobile industry.

“[A year's delay] has the effect of reducing the productivity benefit for mobile broadband by $5.5 billion over the period 2013 to 2020, and for LTE by nearly $17 billion,” the report said, written by Network Strategies.

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