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<h1>Flexible MAIO Management</h1>

<p>With this feature, it will be possible to
arrange MAIOs within a cell in a way that using successive frequency channels
becomes possible without continuous in-cell adjacent channel interference.</p>


<p>This functionality is of vital importance for success of
RF hopping with tight reuse because commonly the operators will be forced
to allocate successive channels in MA lists.</p>


<p>To utilise RF hopping more flexibly, the operator needs
the management access to all the hopping parameters, including MAIOs. Thus,
the possibility to define the MAIOs to be used in the cell is needed. A simple
way to offer such manageability is to provide:</p>


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<li><p>A user defined parameter to set the
starting point for allocation of the MAIOs per cell, that is, the lowest in
a cell can be bigger than zero</p>
</li>
<li><p>A user defined parameter to allow a
discontinuous MAIO numbering to be used in a cell, that is, the MAIOs 0,2,4,6.</p>
</li>
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