In a telecommunications receiver that is adapted to communicate with a mobile device that is adapted to communicate according to a communications protocol, wherein the communications protocol includes constraints as to a relative distance between the telecommunications receiver and the mobile device and relative velocity of the telecommunications receiver to the mobile device, and wherein a deployment of the telecommunications receiver is such that the telecommunications receiver will be further from the mobile device than a maximum distance specified by the communications protocol and will be moving relative to the mobile device at more than a maximum relative velocity specified by the communications protocol, a method of processing received signals received by the telecommunications receiver to handle communications with the mobile device that appear to the mobile device to compliant with the communications protocol, the method comprising:
- receiving a transmission from the mobile device according to the communications protocol;
- sampling the transmission to derive an array of samples;
- determining, at least in part from the array of samples, the relative distance between the telecommunications receiver and the mobile device;
- determining, at least in part from the array of samples, the relative velocity of the telecommunications receiver to the mobile device;
- generating a response to the transmission, wherein the response is compliant with the communications protocol;
- modifying the response to form a modified response, wherein modification is based on a first adjustment corresponding to a first measure of how much the relative distance exceeds the maximum distance and a second adjustment corresponding to a second measure of how much the relative velocity exceeds the maximum relative velocity;
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- sending the modified response from the telecommunications receiver to the mobile device such that the modified response, when received by the mobile device, appears to be compliant with the communications protocol.