If RF transmission repeater units could be mounted in as many automobiles as
possible,
particularly automobiles owned by drivers residing in low population regions, the
likelihood would increase that there could be established wireless transmission
paths between a wireless telephone unit and cellular array base stations, including
a set of at least one automobile mounted repeater unit intermediate and independent
of said wireless telephone unit and said base station. With enough automobiles
with mounted repeaters travelling in the remoter regions, there would be a reasonable
likelihood that such sequential sets of repeaters connecting to base towers of
adjacent cellular arrays could be randomly established. The situation could occur
that two or more alternate paths could be establishable between a cellular telephone
and cell base stations via two different sets of repeaters. In such a case, as
set forth hereinafter in greater detail, there are likely to be different cell
base stations, each for a different path. In such a case, any conflict could be
resolved by selecting the path having the best transmission attributes. This conflict
could readily be resolved through conventional cellular telephone system technology
that switches moving cell phones within cellular array areas that "hand-off" or
switch a moving cell phone as it moves from conventional cell to cell. This hand-off
is based upon attributes like signal-to-noise ratio or strength of signal.