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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1999
Mark Grayson, London, GB;
Dennis Roy Mullins, London, GB;
Keith Norman Guy Hungerford, Balmain, AU;
Richard Wyrwas, London, GB;
ICO Services Ltd., London, GB;
Abstract
In a cellular satellite mobile telecommunication system, cell reception measurements for cell broadcast channels (BCCH) at a user terminal (UT ) are made in an idle mode when no call is being made. At the commencement of a call, the measurement information ( , FIG. ) relating to the measurement made in the idle mode is encoded onto a slow control channel (SACCH ) associated with a speech channel (TCH) for speech communication from the user terminal to a remote ground station (SAN ) via a satellite ( ), and the power of the speech channel transmitted to the user terminal from the satellite, and from the UT to the satellite, for the call, is set in dependence upon the report. The reported data can also be used to determine whether to make a cell or satellite handover.