Abstract:
A method for conveying packet data from a CDMA mobile station (40) to a GSM network (22), including communicating with a GSM service node to establish a data link from the mobile station (40) to the network (22) via a radio communications base station (32). The packet data are conveyed between the mobile station (40) and the base station (32) over a CDMA air interface and are then transferred over the link between the base station (32) and the network (22).
Abstract:
In a GSM mobile wireless telecommunications system (20), a method for conveying data from terminal equipment (46) to a network (48) via a CDMA air interface, including receiving the data as input from the terminal equipment (46) and transmitting the data at a CDMA data transfer rate over the CDMA air interface. The data are transferred to the network (48) over a GSM A-interface using a GSM circuit switched data protocol.
Abstract:
A mobile wireless telecommunication system includes base stations of a first type operating according to a first air interface, and base stations of a second type operating according to a second air interface. Methods and apparatus are provided for handing over a mobile station in the system from a first base station, which is of the first type, to a second base station, which is of the second type. A communications link is established over the first air interface between the mobile station and the first base station. Data are received from the mobile station responsive to a signal received by the mobile station over the second air interface from the second base station, substantially without breaking the communications link with the first base station. The mobile station is handed over from the first to the second base station responsive to the data received therefrom.