A METHOD OF OPERATING A WIRELESS DEVICE (EMBODIMENTS), A METHOD FOR MESSAGES TRANSMISSION AND A CORRESPONDING SIGNAL CARRIER (EMBODIMENTS), A BASE STATION (EMBODIMENTS) AND A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK (EMBODIMENTS)

摘要

A wireless communications network (120) responds to each incoming call placed to a wireless communications device (134) by transmitting a call-paging message (418) within a corresponding partition of a digital radio frame of prescribed format. Responsive to each occurrence of a broadcast event (404), the network transmits (414) a repeating broadcast-paging message announcing the availability of broadcast content from the network. The broadcast-paging message is transmitted multiple times within each digital radio frame. Another sequence (500) describes WCD operation in this network. Responsive to wake-up (502) from sleep, the WCD detects (509) received signal quality. The WCD also receives (510) scheduled network transmission of a call-paging message and a number of instances (at least one) of a repealing network transmitted broadcast-paging message that occurs multiple times for each scheduled transmission of the call-paging message. This number varies inversely with the detected signal quality.