Patent ID: 7076252

Claim:
A method for determining the coverage area of a base transceiver station of a cellular network, characterised in that the method comprises: connecting a wireless terminal to the base transceiver station using a local connection; commanding from the wireless terminal connected to the base transceiver station over said local connection the base transceiver station to transmit a signal that has a specific frequency; commanding said or some other wireless terminal to receive said frequency; measuring the received power of said signal in said or said some other wireless terminal; displaying the numerical value of said received power on the display of said or said some other wireless terminal for determining the coverage area of the base transceiver stations, wherein said local connection comprises one of the following: a cable having one end connected to a data connector of the wireless terminal and another end connected to the base transceiver station, a serial cable, an IR (Infra Red) connection, a LPRF (Low Power Radio Frequency) connection or a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) connection.