 technologies (AWTs), as evidenced for instance by the WARN (Wireless Accelerated Responder Network) system, a mobile broadband network for public safety covering security and emergency services in Washington DC, based on Flash-OFDM. Moreover, security of telecommunications with Internet access will become a paramount subject of economic threat as trade via the Web mounts and the scope of identity theft, electronic funds transfer theft and money laundering becomes an everyday issue for most people. If national and international e-commerce is to take off, the telecommunications infrastructure must have an underlying security architecture that assures not only secure operations but that the privacy of the individual is also respected. Macroeconomy At a macroeconomic level, the wealth of developing nations will tend to increase up to 2030. This is a fundamental driver for telecommunications and its infrastructure build. Increasing incomes will drive all forms of telecommunications takeup, most specifically mobile. Mobile is the lead technology for reasons of access, in two forms, with the driving forces of access examined in detail in Section 4. For a mass market, the technology of mobile can be used to give ubiquitous access at far lower cost. Secondly by its nature, of radio propagation for the local loop, its speed of installation for national coverage is a few years, not a decade or more as it INFRASTRUCTURE TO 2030: TELECOM, LAND TRANSPORT, WATER AND ELECTRICITY - ISBN 92-64-02398-4 © OECD 2006 2. TELECOMS INFRASTRUCTURE TO 2030 would have to be for a wired network, whose cost of deployment for local access would be many times higher, making standing charges unaffordable for most citizens. The importance of this for large sub-continent size countries such as India, Brazil, and China is enormous. In OECD countries, with a fixed infrastructure already in place, one likely scenario is that as fixed and mobile converge, the end user will not be able to differentiate as to how they are accessing networks or the path