A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: a transceiver (401, 402); and a controller operable: to control the transceiver to begin receiving, during one of a plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, a scheduling signal scheduling a paging message for paging the terminal device; wherein the scheduling signal is repeatedly transmitted by the network a predetermined number of times over a predetermined plurality of separate time periods, each of the separate time periods having a duration less than or equal to a time period between consecutive periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device and with any other terminal device of the wireless telecommunications network with which a plurality of periodic paging occasions is associated, and one of the separate time periods being during a periodic paging occasion or between periodic paging occasions other than the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions during which the transceiver is controlled to begin receiving the scheduling signal; and the controller is operable to control the transceiver to receive the repetitions of the scheduling signal over the predetermined plurality of separate time periods, wherein the terminal device is a Narrow Band Internet of Things, NB-IoT, terminal device and the scheduling signal is carried by a Narrow Band Physical Downlink Control Channel, NB-PDCCH, the NB-PDCCH being segmented into the predetermined plurality of separate time periods which are interleaved with the periodic paging occasions. a transceiver (401, 402); and a controller operable: to control the transceiver to begin receiving, during one of a plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, a scheduling signal scheduling a paging message for paging the terminal device; wherein the scheduling signal is repeatedly transmitted by the network a predetermined number of times over a predetermined plurality of separate time periods, each of the separate time periods having a duration less than or equal to a time period between consecutive periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device and with any other terminal device of the wireless telecommunications network with which a plurality of periodic paging occasions is associated, and one of the separate time periods being during a periodic paging occasion or between periodic paging occasions other than the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions during which the transceiver is controlled to begin receiving the scheduling signal; and the controller is operable to control the transceiver to receive the repetitions of the scheduling signal over the predetermined plurality of separate time periods, to control the transceiver to begin receiving, during one of a plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, a scheduling signal scheduling a paging message for paging the terminal device; wherein the scheduling signal is repeatedly transmitted by the network a predetermined number of times over a predetermined plurality of separate time periods, each of the separate time periods having a duration less than or equal to a time period between consecutive periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device and with any other terminal device of the wireless telecommunications network with which a plurality of periodic paging occasions is associated, and one of the separate time periods being during a periodic paging occasion or between periodic paging occasions other than the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions during which the transceiver is controlled to begin receiving the scheduling signal; and the controller is operable to control the transceiver to receive the repetitions of the scheduling signal over the predetermined plurality of separate time periods, wherein the terminal device is a Narrow Band Internet of Things, NB-IoT, terminal device and the scheduling signal is carried by a Narrow Band Physical Downlink Control Channel, NB-PDCCH, the NB-PDCCH being segmented into the predetermined plurality of separate time periods which are interleaved with the periodic paging occasions.