A mobile telecommunications system including: a plurality of coverage areas (TA x, TA y, TA z); a plurality of transceiver node cells (cells a-f) arranged to communicate wirelessly with a plurality of terminals (UE 1), each of the transceiver node cells (cells a-f) serving one of the coverage areas (TA x, TA y, TA z) and having a capability to communicate using at least one of a plurality of frequency bands (fq i, fq ii, fq iii) used for communication by one radio access technology, wherein each of the terminals (UE 1) is allocated to one of the coverage areas (TA x, TA y, TA z) and wherein each of the terminals (UE 1) has a capability to communicate using at least one of the frequency bands (fq i, fq ii, fq iii); and a control entity arranged to initiate a paging procedure for one of the terminals (UE 1) in the coverage area (TA y) allocated thereto using the transceiver node cells (cell c, e) serving that coverage area (TA y); characterised in that : the control entity is arranged to obtain frequency band capability data for the terminal (UE 1), which indicates all of the frequency bands (Fq i) in which the terminal (UE 1) is capable of communicating, and the paging procedure is modified to page the terminal (UE 1) using all the transceiver node cells (cell c) in the coverage area (TA y) that operate in the frequency bands (Fq i) indicated by the frequency band capability data for the terminal (UE 1), but not using the transceiver node cells (cells e) in the coverage area (TA y) that operate only in other ones of the plurality of frequency bands (Fq ii) used for communication by the radio access technology. a plurality of coverage areas (TA x, TA y, TA z); a plurality of transceiver node cells (cells a-f) arranged to communicate wirelessly with a plurality of terminals (UE 1), each of the transceiver node cells (cells a-f) serving one of the coverage areas (TA x, TA y, TA z) and having a capability to communicate using at least one of a plurality of frequency bands (fq i, fq ii, fq iii) used for communication by one radio access technology, wherein each of the terminals (UE 1) is allocated to one of the coverage areas (TA x, TA y, TA z) and wherein each of the terminals (UE 1) has a capability to communicate using at least one of the frequency bands (fq i, fq ii, fq iii); and a control entity arranged to initiate a paging procedure for one of the terminals (UE 1) in the coverage area (TA y) allocated thereto using the transceiver node cells (cell c, e) serving that coverage area (TA y); characterised in that : the control entity is arranged to obtain frequency band capability data for the terminal (UE 1), which indicates all of the frequency bands (Fq i) in which the terminal (UE 1) is capable of communicating, and the paging procedure is modified to page the terminal (UE 1) using all the transceiver node cells (cell c) in the coverage area (TA y) that operate in the frequency bands (Fq i) indicated by the frequency band capability data for the terminal (UE 1), but not using the transceiver node cells (cells e) in the coverage area (TA y) that operate only in other ones of the plurality of frequency bands (Fq ii) used for communication by the radio access technology. the control entity is arranged to obtain frequency band capability data for the terminal (UE 1), which indicates all of the frequency bands (Fq i) in which the terminal (UE 1) is capable of communicating, and the paging procedure is modified to page the terminal (UE 1) using all the transceiver node cells (cell c) in the coverage area (TA y) that operate in the frequency bands (Fq i) indicated by the frequency band capability data for the terminal (UE 1), but not using the transceiver node cells (cells e) in the coverage area (TA y) that operate only in other ones of the plurality of frequency bands (Fq ii) used for communication by the radio access technology. <EOS>