Abstract: This invention provides wireless communications using a remote, self-contained cell site that transceives signals from wireless personal communication devices and communicates these signals with a cellular system connected to a communications network. In an exemplary embodiment, the remote, self-contained cell site is a mobile cellular system that includes a transportation vehicle that carries a radio frequency unit, a modem, a multiplexer/demultiplexer, a digital and/or analog signal processing unit, a loop-back circuit, a control unit, a database, a microwave radio, a radio frequency radio, an extendible mast that supports a microwave antenna, an extendible mast that supports a radio frequency antenna, a generator, an air conditioner, and backup batteries.