Cellular communications network operation

摘要

There is described a method for operating a cellular communications network, and a corresponding cellular communications network, comprising a first base station (10) and a second base station (20), the method comprising: reducing the downlink transmission power of the second base station and increasing the downlink transmission power of the first base station, based upon the level of data traffic being communicated through the second base station; and receiving an initial uplink transmission from a mobile station (200) at the second base station and identifying that the second base station can provide a communications service to the mobile station.