Patent ID: 8797940

Claim:
A method in a wireless relay node for connecting said wireless relay node to a telecommunications network, the method comprising: obtaining first configuration data by inserting into said wireless relay node a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) including said first configuration data, or by activating an embedded Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) located within said wireless relay node, said activation including provisioning USIM credentials with said first configuration data; connecting with said telecommunications network via a wireless interface based on first configuration data, wherein said wireless interface is also used by user equipment to transmit and receive data; authenticating, by said wireless relay node, with said telecommunications network based on said first configuration data; receiving, at said wireless relay node, second configuration data from said telecommunications network; entering, by said wireless relay node, an operational mode using said second configuration data; and relaying, by said wireless relay node, data received from said user equipment via said wireless interface toward said telecommunications network over said wireless interface, wherein said steps of connecting and authenticating use a connection mechanism and an authentication mechanism, respectively, which are present in said telecommunications network and which mechanisms are also used for connecting and authenticating said user equipment; and wherein said connection mechanism is a UE Attach procedure and said authentication mechanism is a Universal Service Identity Module (USIM) procedure.