A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR SPEECH AND PACKET DATA COMMUNICATION WHEREIN DEPLOYMENT, CONTROL AND MAINTENANCE OF PACKET DATA FUNCTIONS OF A PLURALITY OF BASE STATIONS IS DONE BY ONE CENTRALISED MOBILE DATA DEVICE

摘要

The invention relates to a wireless communication system for speech and packetdata communication wherein deployment, control and maintenance of packet datafunctions becomes simpler and less costly. The wireless communication system(111) comprises one or more mobile switching centres (113) having groupswitches (115). Radio base stations (127) having transceivers programmed withsoftware for handling packet data operation are connected to the mobileswitching centre(s) (113). The wireless communication system (111) comprisesalso a packet data backbone (117), which is connected to the group switch(es)(115) of the mobile switching centre(s) (113). One or more centralised mobiledata devices (131) are connected to the group switch(es) (115) of the mobileswitching centre(s) (113). The centralised mobile data device(s) (131) is/arearranged for controlling packet data functions of radio base stations (127)having transceivers with packet data software via the group switch(es) (115)of the mobile switching centre(s) (113).