Patent ID: 7486636

Claim:
A method for planning a telecommunications network for radio equipment including a plurality of cells arranged on a geographic area, wherein each one of the cells comprises a set of pixels adapted to receive radio signals radiated by a respective radio base station and wherein radio equipment located in a cell is subjected to receive common pilot channel signals broadcast by a plurality of radio base stations, comprising, for at least one of said cells: determining an interference level provided by nearby cells to the traffic offered to the pixels of said cell related to the power difference between pilot channels broadcast by the radio base station of said cell and pilot channels broadcast by the respective radio base stations of nearby cells; and determining an area comprising the pixels of the cell in which the network is able to provide predetermined services to the radio equipment located therein, depending on said determined interference level and by comparison with a predetermined level of tolerated interference, said interference level provided by the nearby cells to the traffic offered to the pixels of said cell being estimated by using at least a coefficient depending on the amount of expected traffic in the pixels of said cell.