Directional wireless hotspot device and method for pointing a directional antenna

A method for automatically pointing a directional antenna of a wireless communication device to a fixed transceiver in a mobile cellular communications network having a plurality of distributed cells, each cell covered by at least one fixed transceiver, the method comprising the steps of:

• a) identifying a cell ID of a cell which the wireless communication device camps on;
• b) obtaining or extracting positional data for the fixed transceiver associated with the cell ID;
• c) obtaining a reference azimuth corresponding to the direction of the directional antenna in a horizontal plane;
• d) obtaining a local position of the directional antenna;
• e) based on the positional data for the fixed transceiver and the local position of the directional antenna, calculating a pointing azimuth between the directional antenna and the fixed transceiver;
• f) calculating an azimuthal rotation angle between the reference azimuth and the pointing azimuth;
• g) rotating the directional antenna towards the fixed transceiver based on the calculated azimuthal rotation angle;
• h) continuously, or at intervals, repeating steps a-g, upon a reselection process, further comprising the steps of obtaining or extracting positional data for the fixed transceiver associated with a new one of the plurality of distributed cells and pointing the directional antenna to the fixed transceiver associated with the new cell, thereby dynamically updating the directional wireless hotspot device such that the directional antenna always points to the cell which the directional wireless hotspot device camps on.