A wireless communication apparatus includes wireless communicating unit that carries out a wireless communication with a telephone base unit to be connected to a communication line and carries out the wireless communication with a telephone remote unit that performs the wireless communication with the telephone base unit, communicating unit connected to a communication remote unit, and control unit that communicates with the telephone base unit and the telephone remote unit by using a communication frame including a first slot pair having a descending slot to be used for receiving a signal from the telephone base unit which is disposed earlier on a time basis and an ascending slot to be used for transmitting a signal to the telephone base unit which is disposed later on the time basis, and a second slot pair having a descending slot to be used for transmitting data to the telephone remote unit which is disposed earlier on the time basis and an ascending slot to be used for receiving data from the telephone remote unit which is disposed later on the time basis.