Patent ID: 8611899

Claim:
A wireless communication terminal, comprising: a receiving section for receiving service information that is broadcast to the wireless communication terminal from a base station, and receiving from the base station information of other base stations existing nearby and information including a plurality of types of broadcasting services provided by the other base stations; and a control section for specifying a base station that provides the service information broadcasted by the base station from the other base stations based on the information including the types of broadcasting services provided by the other base stations, wherein the types of broadcasting services include a first type of broadcasting service and a second type of broadcasting service different from the first type of broadcasting service, the control section detects a communication quality between the wireless communication terminal and the base station and a communication quality between the wireless communication terminal and the specified base station, specifies a handoff candidate base station based on the detected result, determines whether a handoff to the base station that is specified as the handoff candidate needs to be performed, and when the control section determines that the handoff is necessary, the control section performs the handoff to the base station that is specified as the handoff candidate.