Repeater system for extended cell coverage

A repeater system for extending cell coverage, comprising:

• a standard base station of a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) based network operating on a first frequency band;
• a base station antenna wirelessly transmitting and receiving radio frequency (RF) signals directly from and to said standard base station of said UMTS based network;
• a repeater, including:
• a donor port connected to said base station antenna, said donor port being for said first frequency band of said base station and of said network;
• a service port for a different second frequency band of said network, the different second frequency band including a carrier frequency for direct communication with standard user equipment of said network;
• and
• a repeater circuit translating said RF signals on the donor port and the service port between the first frequency band of said RF signals and said different second frequency band for wireless RF transmission directly between the repeater and said standard user equipment;
• and
• said user equipment which scans all UMTS operating bands to locate said RF signals of the second frequency band and register with said network,
• wherein said first frequency band and said second frequency band are frequencies of a single UMTS based network and wherein the coverage of said network for said standard user equipment of said network is extended by the repeater system.