the synchronization channel sch a burst broadcast in ts 0 of the frame immediately following the frequency correction f burst 56 that is used to identify the serving base station while allowing each ms 12 to frame synchronize with the base station the present invention provides the necessary information for a ms 12 to locate the s burst 58 of gsm cch 50 perform measurements on the 2g carrier bandwidth and synchronize with the blank slot 60 of wcdma 54 allowing information to be obtained by ms 12 regarding the neighboring cell description in a 2g network in gsm networks the control channels are generally not standardized at fixed frequencies for illustrative purposes fig2 shows an implementation of the present invention in use with a gsm 2g system amps systems such as is 136 which have control channels at fixed specific frequencies and other configurations of wireless communication networks also benefit from the present invention referring now to fig3 therein is shown an embodiment of the present invention with a downlink control channel in the 3g network containing 2g system information more specifically containing 2g control channel information data package 64 is the burst sent from the rns 33 in one of the sixteen 0 625 ms slots available in a 3g wcdma network 2g network control channel information 62 is preferably contained in the broadcast control channel bcch as shown the sixteen slots create a 10 ms timeframe t f 66 and 72 of the timeframes 66 create a 720 ms superframe t super 68 as shown in a wcdma network the ms 12 of the.