Patent ID: 7203482

Claim:
A method comprising: emulating a mobile terminal, or a group of mobile terminals on a wide area wireless network using a fixed radio terminal; establishing a communication path passing from the wide area wireless network through the fixed radio terminal over a local network to the mobile terminal or group of mobile terminals, wherein the communications path uses protocols for the wide area wireless network between the fixed radio terminal and the wide area wireless network and local network protocols between the fixed radio terminal and the mobile terminal or terminals that are connected to the local network; a controller of the fixed radio terminal receiving authentication information from the wide area wireless network; the controller encapsulating the authentication information in the protocol of the local network and passing the authentication information to the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal generating an authentication result from the authentication information that is transmitted to the controller using the local network protocol; and the controller transmitting the authentication result to the wide area wireless network using the wide area network protocol.