Abstract: A method for servicing high-speed data communications in a cellular wireless communication system includes the wireless transmission of data at a higher data rate than is supportable considering constraints of the prior art. The cellular wireless communication system determines a supportable data rate for a wireless subscriber unit based upon available base station transmit power resources and other resources. A data rate multiplier is then determined that is greater than 1 and will typically have a value of 2, 4, 6, 8, . . . , N, wherein N is an integer. With the data rate multiplier determined, a serviced data rate for the transmissions to the wireless subscriber unit is equal to the supportable data rate times the data rate multiplier, i.e., serviced data rate=N * supportable data rate, such that the serviced data rate is a multiple of the supportable data rate. Data is then transmitted from the base station to the wireless subscriber unit at the serviced data rate.