Method and apparatus for aggregation of wireless resources of proximal wireless units to facilitate diversity signal combining

A method for communicating information for a wireless apparatus that is operative to communicate in a wireless local area network (LAN) and also operative to communicate with a wireless wide area network (WAN) comprising:

• transmitting same information by the wireless apparatus to at least one proximal wireless apparatus via the wireless LAN;
• re-transmitting the same information via the wireless WAN, by the wireless apparatus and the proximal wireless apparatus;
• receiving the re-transmitted same information by the WAN from each of the wireless apparatus and the at least one proximal wireless apparatus;
• and
• using the received re-transmitted same information from both the wireless apparatus and the proximal wireless apparatus to enhance the quality of received information for the wireless apparatus.

A wireless apparatus comprising:

• a wireless WAN transceiver,
• a wireless LAN transceiver,
• a processing device, operatively coupled to the wireless WAN transceiver and to the wireless LAN transceiver, wherein the processing device is operative to:
• receive, via the wireless LAN transceiver, re-transmitted simultaneously transmitted same information from a plurality of proximal wireless apparatus;
• and
• use the received simultaneously transmitted information from the plurality of proximal wireless apparatus as diversity information to enhance the quality of received information.