Multiple operator, shared communications terminal

A communications apparatus, comprising:

• a Long Term Evolution (LTE) central node comprising
• at least a pair of radio base stations;
• a plurality of processors;
• and
• at least a pair of virtualized cores respectively and operatively connected with the pair of radio base stations, each radio base station and each core being configured together on a common platform of a system on a chip (SoC) and forming a base station and core set configured to accommodate a predetermined radio frequency (RF) band;
• one or more sensors configured to sense RF band availability;
• a coordinator configured to receive the sensed RF band availability;
• analytics configured to gather real-time communications traffic data and prediction data based thereon, and to provide each of the data to the coordinator, and
• in response to the sensed RF band availability, the real-time communications traffic data, the prediction data based thereon and an allocation of an available RF band comprising a correspondence between the available RF band and an operator network identification (ID), a specific one of each radio base station and core set is selected by the coordinator to carry out radio communication via the allocated RF band,
• each base station and core set being configured to selectively coordinate communications traffic.