If you think of this in location terms imagine for a moment that tethered 600 metres above Flagstaff Hill in the Penang Hills on the Island of Penang is a balloon containing a cellular transmitter with the telephone cabling linking it to the conventional phone network running parallel to the funicular railway down to George Town. Such a system should be able to provide a "Community Cellular Data Network" for the entire island - albeit of limited capacity and subject to an agreement with the existing telecommunications suppliers. To ensure their cooperation the proposed network would be data only and highly regulated and hence not an alternative to the main telecommunications suppliers' products who would gain business through interfacing with it.

In communities under the transmitter's footprint would be fixed cellphones set to communicate data at 9,600 bps. By fixing the Community cellphones there is no cell handover problem - in fact all the Community cellphones on the island would be within the footprint of the Flagstaff Hill transmitter and the location characteristics could be programmed into each Community cellphone unit for optimum communications.

Fixed Community cellphones could be located in schools, community centres, medical facilities etc. They would provide these facilities with low capacity data links to the outside world. But these systems do not put the network communications facilities into every home. For that we need a further development - deployment of Off Line Readers