Abstract: A fixed wireless terminal such as a wireless local loop terminal comprising: memory (210) storing characteristics for at least one network, means (214, 220) for accepting network information particular to a subscriber and processing means (208) for reading the subscriber network information and, on the basis of the subscriber network information, selecting appropriate network characteristics for subsequent use by the terminal. Preferably the processing means (208) is arranged to configure a subscriber line interface circuit (212) in accordance with the selected appropriate network characteristics, such as ringing tone, dialling tone, busy tone etc.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing information in a wireless local loop (WLL) terminal and a WLL terminal. According to the present invention, a WLL terminal comprises a display device, and character-based information, first data, is converted to second data for displaying it on the display. Said first data is advantageously converted in such a manner that a bitmap (222) is first formed on the basis of the character-based first data and then a line code (223) is formed on the basis of said bitmap. The line code is transferred (224, 225) by means of known facsimile transmission technology to a fax machine serving as a display device and displayed by the fax machine (226). The invention can be applied in wireless local loops to implement services that use information in character format. Such services include the short message service and display of caller data.