A method comprising: receiving, by a User Equipment UE and from a base station (134, 136), a first radio resource control RRC layer message (410, 520) indicating that the UE should connect to a wireless access point AP, the RRC layer message including an identifier of the wireless AP to which the UE should connect; connecting, by the UE, to the wireless AP, based on the identifier of the wireless AP; receiving, by the UE and from the base station, a second Radio Resource Control RRC layer message that includes at least one parameter relating to a dedicated radio bearer; creating, by the UE, based on the received at least one parameter, the dedicated radio bearer, over the connection with the wireless AP; and using by the UE, the dedicated radio bearer, over the connection with the wireless AP, to offload data from a wireless wide area network WWAN associated with the base station, characterized in that the method further comprises: receiving, by the UE and from the base station (134, 136) and as part of a RRC UE Capability Enquiry message, a query for capabilities of the UE with respect to an ability of the UE to communicate with wireless local area networks WLANs; and responding by the UE, to the RRC UE Capability Enquiry message by transmitting, to the base station, an indication of a media access control MAC address associated with a WLAN access circuitry associated with the UE, wherein the indication of a MAC address associated with the WLAN access circuitry associated with the UE is used by the base station (134, 136) to authenticate the UE. receiving, by a User Equipment UE and from a base station (134, 136), a first radio resource control RRC layer message (410, 520) indicating that the UE should connect to a wireless access point AP, the RRC layer message including an identifier of the wireless AP to which the UE should connect; connecting, by the UE, to the wireless AP, based on the identifier of the wireless AP; receiving, by the UE and from the base station, a second Radio Resource Control RRC layer message that includes at least one parameter relating to a dedicated radio bearer; creating, by the UE, based on the received at least one parameter, the dedicated radio bearer, over the connection with the wireless AP; and using by the UE, the dedicated radio bearer, over the connection with the wireless AP, to offload data from a wireless wide area network WWAN associated with the base station, characterized in that the method further comprises: receiving, by the UE and from the base station (134, 136) and as part of a RRC UE Capability Enquiry message, a query for capabilities of the UE with respect to an ability of the UE to communicate with wireless local area networks WLANs; and responding by the UE, to the RRC UE Capability Enquiry message by transmitting, to the base station, an indication of a media access control MAC address associated with a WLAN access circuitry associated with the UE, wherein the indication of a MAC address associated with the WLAN access circuitry associated with the UE is used by the base station (134, 136) to authenticate the UE. receiving, by the UE and from the base station (134, 136) and as part of a RRC UE Capability Enquiry message, a query for capabilities of the UE with respect to an ability of the UE to communicate with wireless local area networks WLANs; and responding by the UE, to the RRC UE Capability Enquiry message by transmitting, to the base station, an indication of a media access control MAC address associated with a WLAN access circuitry associated with the UE, wherein the indication of a MAC address associated with the WLAN access circuitry associated with the UE is used by the base station (134, 136) to authenticate the UE.