Abstract: A resource management platform for managing network load in a first telecommunications network operated by a first mobile network operator is provided. The resource management platform is configured to receive, from the first mobile network operator, a request for radio resources; send, to a second mobile network operator, a request to allocate radio resources to the first mobile network operator; receive, from the second mobile network operator, configuration data for allocating radio resources to the first mobile network operator, wherein the radio resources are provided by a second telecommunications network operated by the second mobile network operator; and send the configuration data to the first mobile network operator, wherein the configuration data enables the first mobile network operator to increase available network capacity in the first telecommunications network.

Abstract: A wireless network controller and method for controlling the broadcast of a paging message for a user equipment by a wireless network cell or controlling handover of a user equipment from a serving wireless network cell to a target wireless network cell, wireless controller being configured to compare an access permission of the user equipment to an access condition of the wireless network cell; and if the access permission of the user equipment does not comply with the access condition of the wireless network cell, suppress the paging message such that it is not broadcast on the wireless network cell or suppress handover of the user equipment to the target wireless network cell respectively.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a core and a radio access network having a radio for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network. The radio access network includes a controller operable to control the use of network resources by the mobile terminals. The controller may include an application programming interface, API, which provides a consistent interface to a multiplicity of applications hosted on the control mean. The controller may be provided at an access node site and/or a gateway site.

Abstract: A method of controlling access to a telecommunications network is disclosed. One of a plurality of commercial UEs receives an SIB2 signal from the network. The SIB2 includes a threshold signal BF (0<BF<1) representative of network load at a given time, and a time signal BT. In response to the received SIB2, the commercial UE generates a random number RD1, between 0 and 1. The random number RD is compared with the threshold value BF and, where the value RD1 for the commercial UE is below the threshold BF, the commercial UE is denied access to the network. If the random number exceeds the threshold value BF, the commercial UE is permitted access to the network. Emergency Services UEs have priority access.

Abstract: User location-based alerting in a cellular network may be provided. Geographical location information for one or more mobile terminals of the cellular network is received at a network entity of the cellular network from one or both of: a core network part of the cellular network; and a network management part of the cellular network. One or more geographical locations are identified and a message is then generated to cause an alert to be sent to any mobile terminals in the one or more geographical locations based on the received geographical location information.

Abstract: User location determining in a cellular network may be provided. Geographical location information for one or more mobile terminals of the cellular network is received at a network entity of the cellular network from one or both of: a core network part of the cellular network; and a network management part of the cellular network. A message for communication from the net-work entity to another entity is then generated based on the received geographical location information. For instance, this may allow one or mobile terminal locations to be tracked and their locations may be reported.

Abstract: A wireless network controller and method for controlling the performance of a requested network service for a user equipment within a wireless network. The wireless network controller is configured to compare an access permission of the user equipment to an access condition of a wireless network cell associated with the requested network service, and if the access permission of the user equipment does not comply with the access condition of the wireless network cell associated with the requested network service, suppress the requested network service such that the network service is not performed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides radio resource controllers 110, RRCs, and methods for setting inactivity timers for user equipment devices, UEs. In one aspect, there is provided an RRC 110 for setting inactivity timers for UEs within a cell 140, the RRC being configured to: set a first inactivity timer for a first user equipment device, UE, 120 in the cell 140, wherein the first UE 120 is of a first user type; and set a second inactivity timer, separate to the first inactivity timer, for a second user equipment device, UE, 130 in the cell 140, wherein the second UE 130 is of a second user type.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a core and a radio access network having a radio for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network. The radio access network includes a controller operable to control the use of network resources by the mobile terminals. The controller may include an application programming interface, API, which provides a consistent interface to a multiplicity of applications hosted on the control mean. The controller may be provided at an access node site and/or a gateway site.

Abstract: A routing scheme is set, for providing a communications service to a plurality of subscriber terminals in a cellular network. A service manager that is at least logically separate from the cellular network controls the communications service for the plurality of subscriber terminals. Information about one or both of: the plurality of subscriber terminals; and at least one characteristic of the cellular network is communicated between the cellular network and the service manager. A routing scheme for providing the communications service to the plurality of subscriber terminals is set based on the communicated information.

Abstract: In a telecommunications network including one or more mobile terminals in communicable relation to a mobile network and a data network such that data from the mobile terminals is transmitted towards the data network via the mobile network, a method of directing data from the mobile terminals towards the data network includes: providing an alternative data route towards the data network which bypasses at least a portion of the mobile network; comparing the data from the mobile terminals with selection criteria; and using the result of the comparison to selectively redirecting at least a portion of the data generated by the mobile terminals onto the alternative data route. The alternative data route may be configured to bypass at least a portion of the core component of the mobile network, and data that is redirected is data which is not required to be processed by the bypassed core network component.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network, such as a GSM, UMTS or LTE network, may include, in addition to the conventional radio access network comprising the base stations, one or more additional access points. An access point may be connected to the network core by an IP transport broadband connection. The access point may be configured to appear to the mobile terminal as a conventional base station. Arrangements are disclosed which allow the access point to dynamically adjust the power output through its Common Pilot Channel relative to one or more users. In other words, the greater the distance a user is from the access point, the greater the output power.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a core and a radio access network having a wireless device for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network, wherein the radio access network includes a controller operable to control the use of network resources by the mobile terminals. The controller may include an application programming interface (API) which provides a consistent interface to a multiplicity of applications hosted on the controller. The controller may be provided at an access node site and/or a gateway site.

Abstract: A cellular telecommunications network base station repeater for a mobile terminal in a network having a power control function causes, during an active communication session, mobile terminal uplink transmit power to decrease in response to an increase in signal strength of the received uplink signal. The gain of the repeater is increased in response to an increase in the uplink signal received at the repeater above a threshold, and subsequently decreasing the gain until the measured power in the received uplink signal exceeds the threshold. Due to the power control function, increasing the gain causes the transmit power of the mobile terminal, and hence the uplink signal received at the repeater, to decrease. Decreasing the gain causes the transmit power, and hence the received uplink signal, to increase. The threshold not being exceeded is indicative of the communication no longer being active, and the repeater will eventually deactivate.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a core and a radio access network having a radio for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network. The radio access network includes a controller operable to control the use of network resources by the mobile terminals. The controller may include an application programming interface, API, which provides a consistent interface to a multiplicity of applications hosted on the control mean. The controller may be provided at an access node site and/or a gateway site.

Abstract: A GSM or UMTS mobile telecommunications network is disclosed. In addition to the conventional radio access network comprising macro base station, one or more additional access points are provided. The access point is connected to the network core by an IP transport broadband connection. The access point is configured to appear to the mobile terminal as a conventional base station—that is, it communicates with the mobile terminal using GSM or UMTS transport protocols and does not require any modification to a standard GSM or UMTS mobile terminal. A subscriber may be provided with a designated “home” access point to provide coverage in their premises. Arrangements are described which will tend to reduce the likelihood that reselection to the macro base station while radio coverage is available from the home access point.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a plurality of terminals, a core and a radio access network having a radio device for providing wireless communication resources to the terminals. Further provided is a processing device for recording information indicative of a movement cycle of at least one of the terminals through the radio access network and for identifying points within the movement cycle at which there are spare communication resources to provide a list of spare resource points to the terminal to enable the prediction of optimal data transfer points during a subsequent movement cycle of the terminal through the radio access network.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a core and a radio access network having a radio for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network, wherein the radio access network includes a controller operable to control the use of network resources by the mobile terminals. The controller may include an application programming interface, API, which provides a consistent interface to a multiplicity of applications hosted on the control mean. The controller may be provided at an access node site and/or a gateway site.

Abstract: In a mobile telecommunications network, a mobile terminal is prevented from communicating at a level that would introduce an unacceptable level of interference at a neighboring base station by introducing a received signal threshold criteria at its base station that can adapt to the variation in signal levels at its base station and its neighbors.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a plurality of terminals, a core and a radio access network having a radio device for providing wireless communication resources to the terminals. Further provided is a processing device for recording information indicative of a movement cycle of at least one of the terminals through the radio access network and for identifying points within the movement cycle at which there are spare communication resources to provide a list of spare resource points to the terminal to enable the prediction of optimal data transfer points during a subsequent movement cycle of the terminal through the radio access network.