Patent ID: 8805357

Claim:
Method for determining a cell as being appropriate, by a wireless communication module in a cellular mobile telephony network offering a circuit switching communication service and a packet switching communication service, comprising the following steps: a step of testing the network to which the cell belongs; a step of testing that the cell is not prohibited; a step of testing that the location area is not prohibited: a step of testing the quality of the radio channel, in this case a loss of the radio path; characterised in that it also comprises a step of testing at least one criterion of a set of criteria relating to the support of a functionality by the packet switching service offered by the cell, the set of criteria comprising one criterion relating to GPRS presence, one criterion relating to PBCCH channel support, one criterion relating to EDGE support, one criterion relating to a support of an operating mode of the network to which the cell belongs appropriate for canons requiring the conjoint use of a packet switching communication service and a circuit switching communication service and one criterion relating to CCN notifications support.