Patent ID: 8279858

Claim:
An apparatus for transmitting beacon signals over a cell site of a wireless communications network, the cell site being divided into at least a first sector, a second sector, and a third sector, the apparatus comprising: beacon signal logic configured to allocate at least: a first beacon signal time slot to the first sector, a second beacon signal time slot to the second sector, and a third beacon signal time slot to the third sector; and a transmitter configured to transmit: a first beacon signal on a first beacon signal frequency over the first sector during the first beacon signal time slot, a second beacon signal on the first beacon signal frequency over the second sector during the second beacon signal time slot, and a third beacon signal on the first beacon signal frequency over the third sector during the third beacon signal time slot; and a combination unit configured to combine the beacon signals carried on the first beacon signal frequency with at least one caller traffic signal carried on at least one user carrier frequency.