Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for searching for a home network for the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes performing a full scan for searching for the home network at a certain time after roaming to a visited network, initializing a count of a number of times a timer has expired when the home network is not found, initiating the timer, updating the count when the timer expires, scanning frequencies in a frequency list when the count is less than a certain value, and scanning all frequencies around the mobile terminal when the count is equal to the certain value.

Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for searching for a home network for the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes performing a full scan for searching for the home network at a certain time after roaming to a visited network, initializing a count of a number of times a timer has expired when the home network is not found, initiating the timer, updating the count when the timer expires, scanning frequencies in a frequency list when the count is less than a certain value, and scanning all frequencies around the mobile terminal when the count is equal to the certain value.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for updating a regional reference time of a mobile communication terminal by a regional standard time difference according to a Network Identity and Time Zone (NITZ) information change in an asynchronous transfer mode-based mobile communication system are provided. The method of updating a regional reference time of a mobile communication terminal includes determining whether new regional standard time information is received and calculating, if a regional standard time information is changed, a regional standard time difference, which may have a positive or negative value; and resetting the regional reference time by adding the regional standard time difference to a preset regional reference time.