A user equipment, UE, operable to select a radio node in a cell of a multiple radio access technology, multi-RAT, communications network, the UE having circuitry configured to: determine when to offload data traffic of the UE to a wireless local area network, WLAN, access point, AP, in the multi-RAT communications network based on radio access network, RAN, assistance information communicated via a operations, administration and maintenance, OAM, system; identify a status of one or more WLAN APs in the multi-RAT communications network using the RAN assistance information; and select a radio node in the cell of the multi-RAT communications network for communication based on select criteria; wherein the radio node is a wireless wide area network, WWAN, node or a WLAN AP, and the select criteria is a status of the one or more WLAN APs wherein the status of the one or more WLAN APs is an online status, an offline status, coupled to an internet connection status, a congested status, or a non-congested status; and wherein the circuitry is further configured to: either determine to offload data traffic of the UE to a selected WLAN AP when the status of the one or more WLAN APs is the online status and the non-congested status; or direct data traffic of the UE to a wireless wide area network, WWAN, node: when the status of the one or more WLAN APs is the offline status or the congested status; when no WLAN APs are located in the cell of the communications network; and when the UE has not received RAN assistance information from a RAN. determine when to offload data traffic of the UE to a wireless local area network, WLAN, access point, AP, in the multi-RAT communications network based on radio access network, RAN, assistance information communicated via a operations, administration and maintenance, OAM, system; identify a status of one or more WLAN APs in the multi-RAT communications network using the RAN assistance information; and select a radio node in the cell of the multi-RAT communications network for communication based on select criteria; wherein the radio node is a wireless wide area network, WWAN, node or a WLAN AP, and the select criteria is a status of the one or more WLAN APs wherein the status of the one or more WLAN APs is an online status, an offline status, coupled to an internet connection status, a congested status, or a non-congested status; and wherein the circuitry is further configured to: either determine to offload data traffic of the UE to a selected WLAN AP when the status of the one or more WLAN APs is the online status and the non-congested status; or direct data traffic of the UE to a wireless wide area network, WWAN, node: when the status of the one or more WLAN APs is the offline status or the congested status; when no WLAN APs are located in the cell of the communications network; and when the UE has not received RAN assistance information from a RAN. either determine to offload data traffic of the UE to a selected WLAN AP when the status of the one or more WLAN APs is the online status and the non-congested status; or direct data traffic of the UE to a wireless wide area network, WWAN, node: when the status of the one or more WLAN APs is the offline status or the congested status; when no WLAN APs are located in the cell of the communications network; and when the UE has not received RAN assistance information from a RAN. when the status of the one or more WLAN APs is the offline status or the congested status; when no WLAN APs are located in the cell of the communications network; and when the UE has not received RAN assistance information from a RAN. <EOS>