Wireless premises services using TDMA and the wireless intelligent network

Through the 1980s the principal emphasis of cellular mobile radio services was on providing basic telephone communications to vehicular users over fairly large geographic areas. Initial wireless systems met a basic user need and cellular telephony became a comfortable and useful tool for managing the general business needs of mobile users. More recently, technology and manufacturing innovations have reduced the size and power requirements of mobile handsets, with the result that the larger non-vehicular population of users has been drawn to wireless communications. However, one subset of this population-in building users-has communications needs which are not adequately addressed through basic communications alone. This paper discusses the communications needs of premises users, describes several architectures for providing in building wireless services and provides an overview of access and network technologies which can be used to realize seamless in building services as an integral part of a macro network services environment