Patent ID: 8150344

Claim:
A method, comprising: a low-cost Internet base station (LCIB) detecting a wireless signal from a macro base station in a macro network on an LCIB wireless-communication interface, wherein the LCIB is operating in a building; the LCIB determining at least one signal-strength value for the detected wireless signal; and the LCIB sending the at least one signal-strength value to at least one network entity via an LCIB packet-communication interface, wherein the at least one network entity comprises at least one network-planning director; generating, using the network-planning director, at least one network-planning direction for the macro network based, at least in part, on the at least one signal-strength value, wherein the at least one network-planning direction comprises a direction to reallocate at least one carrier from a first sector to a second sector; and planning the macro network in accordance with the at least one generated network-planning direction.