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Discount on ARCchart Market Research Report for SDR Forum Members

Discount on ARCchart Market Research Report for SDR Forum Members

The SDR Forum has contracted with ARCchart to provide a discount for SDR Forum members interested in purchasing their market research report entitled "Software-Defined Radios in Mobile Phones, an Analysis of the Maturing Wireless Technology Set to Disrupt the Mobile Ecosystem". This report presents a detailed analysis of all facets of SDR activity and forecasts the timelines and market for SDR in mobile phones. As part of this research, ARCchart interviewed 25 stakeholders across the mobile phone value-chain, including OEMs, IP owners, chip experts, antenna specialists, operators, regulators and industry associations. These stakeholders discussed their SDR initiatives and shared their insights on the drivers for SDR, the technology and business challenges and the estimated timelines for the introduction of SDR in mobile phones.

Among the findings of this research report is that, from a technology perspective, the baseband is already software driven to a large extent in most commercial handsets. ARCchart estimates that handsets with fully re-programmable basebands will reach the market by the second half of 2009. The RF front-end and the antenna present greater design challenges, but products that facilitate a single step conversion from the RF signal to the baseband signal have already been launched and eventually these will be integrated with the re-programmable baseband. ARCchart predicts that commercial handsets with programmable RF front-ends will appear by 2010/11. Antennas will continue to be the most challenging functional block for re-programmability. However, ARCchart believes that antenna specialists will undergo heightened innovation activity and this may fuel mergers and acquisitions in the industry

Additional information on this market study can be found here: http://www.arcchart.com/reports/sdr.asp

ARCchart is offering this report to SDR Forum members as either (i) one hard copy version at a discount of twenty-five percent (25%) off the then applicable "North American Price" or "International Price" or (ii) one electronic version of the Report (in .pdf format) and an "Enterprise License" to distribute copies thereof to the eligible Forum Member's employees on a worldwide basis, at a discount of twenty-five percent (25%) off the then applicable "Enterprise License" price. SDR Forum Members wishing to take advantage of this special offer should send an email to:

MarketStudies@SDRForum.org

In your email, please put "ARCchart Market Report" in the subject line and contact information in the body of the text. Once your membership has been validated by the SDR Forum, ARCchart will then contact you to finalize your purchase.

The SDR Forum has arranged this discount as a service for its members, and this should not in anyway be construed as an endorsement by the Forum of the content of the ARCchart market report.

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