Frequency reuse

Frequency reuse

The ability of specific channels assigned to a single cell to be used again in another cell, when there is enough distance between the two cells to prevent co-channel interference from affecting service quality. The technique enables a cellular system to increase capacity with a limited number of channels. (Cingular)

Technology that allows frequencies to be re-used after they have been vacated by a mobile-phone user leaving a particular cell. One measure of a system's effectiveness is how far the initial user of a specific frequency must travel away from the cell site before the frequency may be re-used. (Motorola)