A networked computing system facilitating ancillary device measurement of regional network communications in order to determine intra-network communications handovers. The networked computing system includes a base station, one or more transceiver devices having shorter-range communications capability than the base station, user equipment, and a data communications network facilitating data communications amongst the networked computing systems devices. Within the network, a first transceiver device may be configured to detect ancillary communications between a user equipment and the base station, and then measure one or more characteristics associated with the ancillary communications in response to detecting the ancillary communications. The first transceiver device may also be configured to transmit the measured characteristics to the base station or to an auxiliary network controller device that is capable of making network communications usage decisions based on one or more network resource usage rules.