Patent ID: 8320359

Claim:
An apparatus for enabling a synchronization channel (SCH) and broadcast channel (BCH) using a bandwidth (BW) equal to the minimum possible BW for the system, comprising: a mobile terminal/user equipment (UE) operable in a cellular telecommunications system, said mobile terminal/UE having a receiver section; the receiver section operable to synchronize with and perform data detection of data from a first transmitter of the cellular telecommunications system; the receiver section operable to simultaneously perform a cell search by searching for at least a second transmitter in the cellular telecommunications system by correlating the delayed versions of received signals in order to find a SCH signal from the at least second transmitter; and wherein the first and at least a second transmitters are operable to time and frequency multiplex SCH and BCH signals using modulators adapted to output orthogonal frequency division modulated (OFDM) symbols, and to repeat SCH and/or BCH signals in the frequency domain.