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A channel allocation process for a cellular telephone network (99) starts from a position of homogeneity (100) in which each base station has the potential to use all channels, and develops ever greater heterogeneities by processing (200)a combination of short and medium range interactions between the base stations themselves , causing each base station of the cellular telephone network to inhibit its neighbours from using a given channel, to generate a usage factor Ujkt for each channel in each cell indicative of the level of interference to be expected on that channel in that cell.