WiFi fixed wireless personal services

An access point for enabling wireless terminals to access a packet core network, the access point comprising:

• a cellular radio controller, configured to attach to a packet core network via a cellular radio access network, wherein the attachment to the packet core network establishes a default Packet Data Network (PDN) connection between the access point and a packet gateway of the packet core network;
• an Internet Protocol (IP) router, configured to operate as an access router for a subnet associated with an IP address space, wherein the access router is configured to route packets between the wireless terminals and the packet core network via respective dedicated bearers established for each of the wireless terminals, wherein each of the respective dedicated bearers is associated with the default PDN connection;
• a local radio controller, configured to provide a wireless hotspot for wireless terminals within a local coverage area;
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• a signaling relay, configured to relay authentication signaling between a wireless terminal and the packet core network, and to relay further signaling between the wireless terminal and the packet core network in order to allocate to the wireless terminal an IP address from said IP address space.

An Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) server for use within a packet core network, the AAA server comprising:

• a first controller, configured to authenticate and authorize, via a cellular radio access network, an access point that is configured to operate as a wireless hotspot for wireless terminals;
• a notifier, configured to notify a Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) server of the authentication and authorization of the access point, and to install in the DHCP server an IP address space of a subnet for which the access point is to act as a router;
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• a second controller, configured to authenticate and authorize, via the access point, individual wireless terminals.