A method for managing wireless device communications including establishing active, persistent, and repetitive communications with a wireless device operating in a coverage area of a local wireless network established as an overlay to a part of a macro wireless network by placing a call to the wireless device, completing a call connection to the wireless device, sending a message to the wireless device, receiving and processing a response to the message from the wireless device, and persistently repeating a call process of the placing a call, completing a connection, sending a response, and receiving and processing the response.