Facilitating Asynchronous Transmissions Using a Protocol Having Asynchronous and Synchronous Portions

A method to facilitate conveying asynchronous transmissions from a message source to a message destination via a communications protocol having a synchronous source transmission portion and an asynchronous source transmission portion, comprising:

• at a wireless repeater:
• receiving, via a first carrier, a transmission from the message source that is asynchronous with respect to a time slot partitioning of the communication protocol;
• when the asynchronous transmission is received during the asynchronous source transmission portion, buffering a corresponding message until a next available synchronous time slot opportunity during the asynchronous source transmission portion and then transmitting the message via a second carrier to at least attempt to forward the message.