Patent ID: 7231220

Claim:
A communication method for a mobile wireless transmit receive unit (mobile WTRU) within a wireless network having geographic areas for preferred communication usage where the mobile WTRU can directly transmit and receive communication signals with a predetermined network station associated with a respective geographic area, comprising the steps of: determining an estimated geographic location of a mobile WTRU; providing the mobile WTRU with position data relative to the determined mobile WTRU estimated location of at least one preferred communication area associated with a network station with which the WTRU cannot directly communicate at the determined mobile WTRU estimated location; displaying the relative position data of said at least one preferred communication area to facilitate relocation of the mobile WTRU from the determined mobile WTRU estimated location to said at least one preferred communication area; and relocating the WTRU to within said at least one preferred communication area such that the WTRU directly transmits and receives communication signals with the network station associated with said at least one preferred communication area.