A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: a transceiver; 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 one or more terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network, each periodic paging occasion associated with the terminal device being associated with a value of a characteristic of the scheduling signal which is different from a value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with one or more of each of the other periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device and each of periodic paging occasions associated with one or more other terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network; to determine whether the value of the characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches the value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device; and if the value of the characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches the value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, to control the transceiver to receive the paging message scheduled by the received scheduling message; wherein the terminal device is a Narrow Band Internet of Things, NB-IoT, terminal device, the scheduling signal is carried by a Narrow Band Physical Downlink Control Channel, NB-PDCCH, and the characteristic of the scheduling signal is a paging occasion identifier identified by downlink control information, DCI, of the NB-PDCCH. a transceiver; 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 one or more terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network, each periodic paging occasion associated with the terminal device being associated with a value of a characteristic of the scheduling signal which is different from a value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with one or more of each of the other periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device and each of periodic paging occasions associated with one or more other terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network; to determine whether the value of the characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches the value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device; and if the value of the characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches the value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, to control the transceiver to receive the paging message scheduled by the received scheduling message; 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 one or more terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network, each periodic paging occasion associated with the terminal device being associated with a value of a characteristic of the scheduling signal which is different from a value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with one or more of each of the other periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device and each of periodic paging occasions associated with one or more other terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network; to determine whether the value of the characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches the value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device; and if the value of the characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches the value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, to control the transceiver to receive the paging message scheduled by the received scheduling message; wherein the terminal device is a Narrow Band Internet of Things, NB-IoT, terminal device, the scheduling signal is carried by a Narrow Band Physical Downlink Control Channel, NB-PDCCH, and the characteristic of the scheduling signal is a paging occasion identifier identified by downlink control information, DCI, of the NB-PDCCH.