Configurable baseband processing for receiver and transmitter and methods for use therewith

A configurable transceiver comprising:

• an RF receiver section that generates at least one downconverted signal from a received RF signal;
• a receiver processing module, coupled to the RF receiver section, that processes at least one downconverted signal in a plurality of receiver stages to produce a stream of inbound data, wherein the receiver processing module is configurable in response to a control signal to selectively bypass at least one of the plurality of receiver processing stages and to select a selected one of a plurality of channel utilization modes;
• a transmitter processing module that processes outbound data in a plurality of transmitter stages to produce at least one baseband signal, wherein the receiver processing module is configurable in response to the control signal to selectively bypass at least one of the plurality of transmitter processing stages and to select a selected one of a plurality of channel utilization modes;
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• an RF transmitter section, coupled to the transmitter processing module, that generates at least one RF signal from the at least one baseband signal.