The present invention relates to estimating the Angle of Arrival (AoA) of
a signal from a user equipment received at a base station of a wireless
telecommunications network where the base station has a multi-beam
antenna. A signal received from a user equipment is received by the each
of the multiple beams of the antenna, and the two adjacent beams
receiving the highest amplitude from the end user are selected. A ratio
of functions of the amplitudes of the two selected beams, such as a ratio
of the difference between the amplitudes of the two beams to the sum of
the amplitudes is calculated and compared to a data store of ratios. The
data store stores expected ratios corresponding to AoAs and the
calculated ratio is compared to the pre-calculated expected ratios to
extract an estimate of the AoA of the signal from the user equipment.