A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective,
simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different
sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to
as "sectors". In one embodiment, channel allocation techniques for
increasing one or more of throughput and coverage in a wireless
communications environment. In one embodiment, a mode of operation is
selected from a plurality of modes of operation, enabling a wireless
communications transmitter to be dynamically configured to reach a
wireless communications devices at a greater distance from the
transmitter without increased interference between communications
channels ("range mode") or to provide wireless communications to a
greater number of wireless communications devices within a relatively
closer distance to the wireless transmitter ("capacity mode") or to
provide wireless communications using a single channel to provide
wireless communications at a relatively greatest distance from the
transmitter ("super range mode").