Patent ID: 7062293

Claim:
A cellular communications system providing wireless communication with system users and having a wireless millimeter wave trunk line for communicating with a communication office, said system comprising: A) a plurality of cellular base stations each of said base stations serving a communication cell, each of said base stations comprising: 1) at least one low frequency wireless transceiver for communicating with users within said cell at a cell phone radio frequency lower than 3 GHz, 2) at least one high frequency wireless transceiver for communicating with other base stations as a part of said trunk line at a trunk line frequency higher than 60 GHz, and 3) a data transfer means for transferring data communicated through said at least one low frequency transceiver to said at least one high frequency wireless transceiver and for transferring data communicated through said at least one high frequency wireless transceiver to said at least one low frequency wireless transceiver, and B) at least one high data rate communication link providing communication between said plurality of cellular base stations and said telephone communication office.