Patent ID: 7123921

Claim:
A method for controlling a distribution of transmission rates in a cellular radiotelecommunication system, the method comprising the steps of: operating, in a radio cell of the radiotelecommunication system, at least two fixed parts and at least one portable part for purposes of wireless telecommunication; supporting, via a first of the at least two fixed parts, both a first transmission mode in which a first service is transmitted at a first transmission rate and a second transmission mode in which a second service is transmitted at a second transmission rate; supporting, via a second of the at least two fixed parts, the first transmission mode in which the first service is transmitted at the first transmission rate; signaling to the at least one portable part, via the first fixed part in a first system information item that the first fixed part supports either the first transmission mode and the second transmission mode, or that the first fixed part supports the second transmission mode but not the first transmission mode, depending on a traffic load carried by the second fixed part; and signaling to the at least one portable part, via the second fixed part, in a second system information item that the second fixed part supports the first transmission mode.