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A method and apparatus providing softer handoff of a mobile unit between sectors of a common base station. A sectorized base station comprises a set of demodulation elements. Each demodulation element may be assigned to a signal from one of a plurality of sectors. The output of the demodulators are

A method and apparatus providing softer handoff of a mobile unit between sectors of a common base station. A sectorized base station comprises a set of demodulation elements. Each demodulation element may be assigned to a signal from one of a plurality of sectors. The output of the demodulators are combined before the decoding process independent of the sector from which the data originated. This configuration provides improved output data reliability, more stable power control, and more efficient use of resources at the base station.

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A cellular telephone system comprising: a mobile unit for generating a reverse link signal and receiving a forward link signal; a first set of mobile units for generating a first set of other reverse link signals; a second set of mobile units for generating a second set of other reverse link signals

A cellular telephone system comprising: a mobile unit for generating a reverse link signal and receiving a forward link signal; a first set of mobile units for generating a first set of other reverse link signals; a second set of mobile units for generating a second set of other reverse link signals; a first base station transceiver system having a first radio frequency signal processing system for receiving a first instance of said reverse link signal, a second radio frequency processing system for receiving a second instance of said reverse link signal, and a signal processing system for combining said first and second instances to generate a first digital signal; a second base station transceiver system for receiving a third instance of said reverse link signal and for generating a second digital signal in response; a base station controller system combining said first digital signal and said second digital signal into a third digital signal, wherein said first instance is received along with said first set of other reverse link signals, and said second instance is received along with said second set of other reverse link signals.