in one embodiment an overload indicator 320 can be sent to an adjacent cell e g a cell to which a cellular telephone moves into if the cellular telephone in question still generates serious interference in this adjacent cell the information on which adjacent cell a cellular telephone moves to can be obtained for example through a handover message each base station 302 that receives an overload indicator 320 sends an instruction 322 to the cellular telephones 316 within the cell 304 served by that base station 302 in response to instruction 322 cellular telephones 316 reduce their transmit power thereby reducing intercell interference for the originator of overload indicator 320 in the example of fig3 neighboring base station 302 b sends instruction 322 to the cellular telephone s 316 b located in neighboring cell 304 b thereby reducing the intercell interference received by local base station 302 a various embodiments can be implemented in digital electronic circuitry or in computer hardware firmware software or in combinations of them apparatus can be implemented in a computer program product tangibly embodied in a machine readable storage device for execution by a programmable processor and method steps can be performed by a programmable processor executing a program of instructions to perform functions by operating on input data and generating output embodiments can be implemented in one or more computer programs that are executable on a programmable system including at least one programmable processor coupled to receive data and instructions from and to transmit data and instructions to a data storage system at least one.