Patent ID: 7680133

Claim:
A system supporting simulcasting of a wide area network call via a broadband access gateway, the system comprising: a gateway communicatively coupled to a broadband network and at least one wireless interface, the gateway operable to selectively communicate multimedia information among the at least one wireless interface and the broadband network, and to communicate with a plurality of access devices via the at least one wireless interface; the gateway operable to receive from a wireless wide area network via the broadband network, multimedia information also received wirelessly by a first of the plurality of access devices via a simulcast transmission directly from the wireless wide area network, wherein the simulcast transmission to the gateway is initiated by the wireless wide area network according to user-established associations of the first of the plurality of access devices and the gateway and of the gateway to the wireless wide area network, known to the wireless wide area network; the gateway operable to establish with a second of the plurality of access devices, via the at least one wireless interface, a call path for communication of the multimedia information to the second of the plurality of access devices; and the gateway operable to communicate the multimedia information to the second of the plurality of access devices, via the at least one wireless interface.