System for interfacing a standard telephone set with a radio transceiver

A cellular-type radio/telephone communication system having at least one remote radio station transmitter-receiver linked with a master cellular-type switching center which is in turn linked with a local telephone central switching office, wherein the remote radio station transmitter-receiver provides a wireless communication link with a base station transceiver, the improvement comprising:

• a telephone communications-type device for providing standard Touch-Tone/pulse dialing signals;
• a cellular-type radio transceiver mounted at a fixed site;
• interfacing means for interfacing said telephone device to said cellular transceiver, said interfacing means comprising power supply means for supplying DC voltage to said cellular transceiver;
• telephone number digital conversion means for converting touch-tone/pulse-dialed signals from said telephone device to digital data for at least temporary storage in said cellular transceiver;
• means coupled to said telephone number digital conversion means for automatically determining the last digit dialed of a telephone number from said telephone device;
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• sending means coupled to said means for automatically determining the last digit for enabling said transceiver to transmit the digital data in response to said determination means' determination that the last digit of the telephone number has been input.