Patent ID: 7558568

Claim:
A wireless communications system comprising: a terrestrial network including a plurality of base stations providing communications service for radioterminals over a terrestrial network coverage area, the plurality of base stations including interior base stations providing communications service for radioterminals in an interior portion of the terrestrial network coverage area and peripheral base stations providing communications service for radioterminals at a peripheral portion of the terrestrial network coverage area, wherein at least one of the peripheral base stations provides transmissions directed toward an interior portion of the terrestrial network coverage area with greater power than transmissions directed away from interior portions of the terrestrial network coverage area; and a space based network comprising at least one satellite, the space based network providing communications service for radioterminals in a first satellite coverage area using a first frequency of a satellite frequency band and providing communications service for radioterminals in a second satellite coverage area using a second frequency of the satellite frequency band, wherein at least a portion of the terrestrial network coverage area is within the first satellite coverage area, wherein an entirety of the terrestrial network coverage area is outside the second satellite coverage area, and wherein at least one of the base stations provides communications service using the second frequency of the satellite frequency band, and refrains from providing communications service using the first frequency of the satellite frequency band.