Real-time data collection software tool for collecting data useful in the development, debugging and optimization of a carrier's telecommunication network, such as a CDMA telecommunication network, and related infrastructure and handsets; a software tool for use with a wireless communication cellular and personal communication services system for post-processing the collected data to conduct performance and diagnostic testing of the telecommunications network, and for establishing an interface between a computer that is used for processing, recording and archiving the collected data and a mobile communications device, such as a test phone, that has been configured to collect such data from received electromagnetic signals; software for use in the generation of simulated call traffic, and for performance monitoring of radio frequencies, for signaling and messaging testing for wireless communications apparatus, namely, wireless base stations and wireless terminals; and user manuals sold therewith as a unit