Method of selecting maximum transmission power level to be used by a radio telecommunications base station or base stations in a network, a radio telecommunications base station and radio telecommunications network

摘要

A maximum transmission power level to be used by a radio telecommunications base station in communicating with a mobile user terminal is selected. The base station communicates with neighboring base stations to determine distances to the neighboring base stations, and sets the maximum transmission power level at a level such as to enable communications with mobile user terminals located at most a fraction of the distance from the base station towards the nearest neighboring base station.