Patent ID: 6154654
Filing Date: 2000-11-28
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A telecommunications system for reducing the adjacent channel interference between adjacent ones of a plurality of cells within a frequency reuse plan, said telecommunications system comprising:a plurality of cell clusters, each said cell cluster comprising four cells, each of said cells having a substantially hexagon shape and three sectors, each of said sectors having a substantially rhombus shape; anda plurality of base stations, each said cell having a respective one of said base stations substantially centrally located therein, each of said base stations having three antenna-pointing azimuths associated therewith, each of said sectors within each of said cells having a respective one of said antenna-pointing azimuths associated therewith, a first one of said antenna-pointing azimuths being points about sixty degrees from north along a north-south axis, a second one of said antenna-pointing azimuths being pointed about one hundred eighty degrees from north along said north-south axis, and a third one of said antenna-pointing azimuths being pointed about three hundred degrees from north along said north-south axis.