The falling prices are forcing all manufacturers to put more effort into improving their manufacturing technology and module efficiency in order to get back ahead of the rapidly declining cost curve.
The new security-industrial complex will grow, because we need it and because this economic juggernaut will take us down the now familiar tech curve of declining costs.
The US carriers want to be one step ahead of the curve that could lead to declining mobile voice revenues in markets where consumers still have the option to pick a voice minute bucket.