Patent ID: 6324404
Filing Date: 2001-11-27
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
A wireless over-the-air communications system that includes a plurality of CMR (cellular mobile radio) systems, one or more cell sites shared by the CMR systems, an MTSO in at least one of said plurality of CMR systems, locating means in the cellular communications system for determining the exact geographic location of a mobile unit involved in a call and for providing a position signal of said exact geographic location, means in the MTSO for recognizing the position signal and using that position signal to establish the exact geographic location of the mobile unit involved in the call, and data means in the MTSO responsive to the locating means for directing a communication process to a specific CMR system based on the exact geographic location of the mobile unit regardless of a location of a cell site handling the call, said data means including tables containing positional data for service boundaries associated with each CMR system and means for comparing the exact geographic location of said mobile unit to the tables and automatically selecting a specific CMR system to handle the communication process and bill said mobile unit for services provided by said specific CMR system based on said exact geographic location of the mobile unit regardless of which cell site handled the communications process and without further input from a user of the mobile unit.