Telecommunications Economies of Scale

Market size and projections, market dynamics, impact of band allocation on scale economics, FDD versus TDD, Band allocations, guard bands and duplex separation, the impact on transceiver design and cost, software defined radio, WiMax and the 2.6 GHz extension bands, intermodulation, the need to support higher frequencies and linear power efficiency, the impact of increased RF integration on volume thresholds, Maturity Performance Thresholds, The RF Functions in a Phone, issues of RF Device Integration and handset RF component cost trends