Abstract: A method for establishing a radio connection between a stationary subscriber terminal connected to a telephone system and a selected mobile subscriber terminal equipped with a transmit/receive device. A search request filed by the stationary subscriber terminal is transmitted to a satellite which broadcasts this search request over a given area of the earth. This search request contains the number of the selected mobile subscriber terminal and the number of the stationary subscriber terminal to be called back or the identification number of a radio transfer exchange with which the stationary subscriber terminal is connected and the circuit number of the connection existing between the radio transfer exchange and the stationary subscriber terminal.

Abstract: A TDMA point-to-multipoint communications system composed of a central station and a plurality of substations, with multiple utilization of a transmission band and with the transmission time between the central station and the substations having a different value for each substation, is operated to effect transmission between the central station and the substations in a succession of time frames, by the steps of:transmitting from the central station, during a first time period, a succession of signal groups, each directed to a respective substation, in a sequence such that the first transmitted signal group is directed to the substation having the longest associated transmission time and the last transmitted signal group is directed to the substation having the shortest associated transmission time;transmitting a respective signal group from each substation to the central station during a second time period following the first time period, the respective signal group being transmitted from each substation at

Abstract: A method for transmitting communications services signals in time division multiplex operation with multiple access via a satellite equipped with a plurality of receiving and transmitting units between which any desired associations can be made by means of a switching matrix. A plurality of received communications services signals are switched through to at least one transmitting unit, where they are initially demodulated, then stored as pulse bursts and thereafter read out of a memory continuously at a lower bit rate than the pulse bursts had previously, to finally be transmitted as modulated data in the form of at least one continuous bit stream.