Patent ID: 8477692

Claim:
A radio communication system comprising: a mobile unit having a passenger compartment constituting a communicating apace; a plurality of seat rows arranged along a longitudinal direction in the communicating space, each of said seat rows having a plurality of passenger seats, one of said seat rows constituting a front-most seat row of the passenger compartment with no seat row disposed forwardly thereof in the passenger compartment, and another one of the seat rows constituting a rear-most seat row of the passenger compartment with no seat vow deposed rearwardly thereof in the passenger compartment; a wireless terminal disposed at a back of each of the seats of each of the seat rows other than the seats of the rear-most seat row, the wireless terminals at the backs of the seats of the seat row immediately forward of the rear-most seat row constituting rear-most wireless terminals of the passenger compartment; and a wireless base station disposed in an upper section of the communicating space; wherein each of the wireless terminals is configured for radio communication with the wireless base station; and wherein the wireless base station is disposed forward of the front-most seat row of the passenger compartment or rearward of the rear-most wireless terminals of the passenger compartment.