Patent ID: 9674334
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of outputting alarm messages by subscriber terminals in a radio communications system, comprising: receiving, by subscriber terminals, an indication of an alarm by at least one system information item from at least one base station in the radio communications system using a control channel, each of the at least one base station providing radio services within a respective cell, the alarm relating to a geographic region that includes the respective cell of each of the at least one base station; outputting, by one or more of the subscriber terminals, a stored alarm message based on receiving the at least one system information item from the at least one base station; wherein the at least one system information item makes it possible to distinguish between a plurality of alarm categories which are output as corresponding alarm messages by the subscriber terminals; and wherein at least one of the alarm categories is signaled to the subscriber terminals by at least one of an alarm system information item and coding of an informational system information item which contains other information.