Patent ID: 8649794

Claim:
A method in a base station controller of allocating a radio channel resource to a mobile station, comprising: configuring the base station controller to be aware of twin cells corresponding to respective first and second radio transceivers of a pool of radio transceivers shared among a plurality of wireless telecommunication networks, the first radio transceiver being for a first radio base station belonging to a first one of the plurality of wireless telecommunication networks, the second radio transceiver being for a second radio base station belonging to a second one of the plurality of wireless telecommunication networks, the twin cells having the same geographic area, each radio transceiver in the pool being able to operate in each of the plurality of wireless telecommunication networks, and the base station controller belonging to the first one of the plurality of wireless telecommunication networks; determining whether a request for a channel resource is directed to a cell that has a respective twin cell; and when the request for the channel resource is directed to a cell that has a configured twin cell, allocating a channel resource from either the cell or the respective twin cell irrespective of wireless communication network to which the allocated cell belongs, and storing a registered network of the mobile station.