Abstract: A mobile phone 1 according to the present invention stores first broadcast information received from a base station B1, in correspondence with first cell information in a storage unit 5. When the mobile phone 1 receives second cell information from a base station B2, it determines whether there is previously stored cell information identical with the second cell information, in a cell information storage table 51. When the result of the determination is that it is stored, the mobile phone 1 reads out the first broadcast information and transfers to a cell according to the first broadcast information. When it is not stored, the mobile phone receives second broadcast information and transfers to a cell according to the second broadcast information. Namely, the mobile phone 1 makes the cell transfer according to minimum data within a range in which a cell as a potential transfer target can be identified.

Abstract: A smaller number of frequencies are dynamically defined, from which a frequency to be used is first searched, failing which, all the frequencies available to a particular mobile communication system are searched, thereby frequency search is efficiently performed with a reduced power consumption.