INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SERVES DIFFERENT SERVICE PROVIDERS

摘要

Independent groups of wireless telephone subscribers (tenants) are supported by common infrastructure communication equipment including a wireless network controller (WNC) and a database that stores group membership information. A plurality of radio frequency base stations are disposed to provide wirele ss communications channels for the wireless telephones. A switched telecommunication office supports conventional wired communication channels. The WNC supports a plurality of base stations and can couple a wireless and wired communication channel together to provide a voice channel for a wireless telephone subscriber. The WNC only provides a voice channel to a requesting wireless telephone subscriber if the base station carrying the request has been assigned to handle the group that includes the the requesting subscriber as determined b y the database.