The present invention relates to wireless communications, and to a method and apparatus for estimating the location of the terminal. A positioning server with an aspect of the present invention; (Access Point) AP in communication with the plurality of position location server; And a terminal for communicating short range and the plurality of AP; the position estimation system, including the positioning server, wherein the plurality of predetermined reference or more of the AP and determines the 1 AP-crystalline is a high least one, wherein If the terminal is a first terminal for receiving or transmitting and receiving via the local area communication, the first terminal is said by the strength of a signal received in a state that is not in the AP and connecting (connecting) a plurality, from the first AP If the presumptive location of the first terminal, and wherein the terminal second terminal only transmitted via the local area communication, in the state of the AP of the plurality is not connecting with the second terminal, the signal received from the second terminal transmitting the strength of the information to the positioning server, and the location positioning server and the second terminal using the intensity information of the signal transmitted through the first 1 AP The position can be estimated.