Patent ID: 8131301

Claim:
A method of operating a processing system to relocate wireless communication equipment, the method comprising: receiving customer data and performance data for wireless communication equipment located at a plurality of potential donor sites; receiving geographic information for a target relocation site; processing the customer data, the performance data, and the geographic information to determine a relocation score for each of the wireless communication equipment located at the plurality of potential donor sites; selecting wireless communication equipment of at least one of the plurality of potential donor sites for relocation to the target relocation site based upon the relocation score; wherein selecting wireless communication equipment of the one of the plurality of potential donor sites for relocation to the target relocation site based upon the relocation score comprises: determining underutilized wireless communication equipment across the plurality of potential donor sites based upon the relocation score; and selecting the most underutilized wireless communication equipment of the plurality of potential donor sites for relocation to the target relocation site; wherein the wireless communication equipment comprises carrier equipment for a sector of a base station.