A space-based component, such as a satellite, is configured to receive
wireless communications from radiotelephones in a satellite footprint
over an uplink satellite radiotelephone frequency, and to transmit
wireless communications to the radiotelephones over a downlink
radiotelephone frequency. An ancillary terrestrial network, that may
include one or more ancillary terrestrial components, is configured to
transmit wireless communications to, and receive wireless communications
from, the radiotelephones over the downlink satellite radiotelephone
frequency in a time-division duplex mode. By terrestrially transmitting
and receiving wireless communications over the downlink satellite
radiotelephone frequency in a time-division duplex mode, interference at
the space-based component and/or at the gateway, by the ancillary
terrestrial network and/or the radiotelephones due to terrestrial reuse
of cellular satellite frequency spectrum, may be reduced or eliminated.