LOCAL AREA CELLULAR BASESTATION

摘要

A base station (50) for a cellular wireless communications network has a first interface (Uu) , enabling connection with a remote communications device (30) using a cellular wireless communications protocol in the cellular wireless communications network. The base station also has a second interface, enabling connection over a wide area network (70) , and a third interface, enabling connection over a local area network (42) . Software enables communication over the wide area network between a remote communications device (30) , connected to the first interface, and a core network (20) of the cellular wireless communications network. Software can also enable the remote communications device to communicate with a device (44) in the local area network, or with a server (72) in the wide area network, without using the core network (20) of the cellular wireless communications network.