Patent ID: 7986704

Claim:
A system for a communication device supporting simulcasting of a wide area network call via a broadband access gateway, the system comprising: at least one processor for operably coupling to at least one wireless interface and to a broadband network, the at least one processor operable to, at least: receive from a wireless wide area network via the broadband network, multimedia information also received wirelessly by a first of a plurality of access devices via a simulcast transmission directly from the wireless wide area network, wherein the simulcast transmission to the gateway is initiated by the wireless wide area network according to predefined associations of the first of the plurality of access devices and the gateway and of the gateway and the wireless wide area network, known to the wireless wide area network; establish with a second of the plurality of access devices, a call path for communication of the multimedia information to the second of the plurality of access devices; and communicate the multimedia information to the second of the plurality of access devices.