Patent ID: 8923884

Claim:
In a mobile telecommunications system including a network including a plurality of base stations for defining communications cells; and first and second user equipments for communicating with the network, said plurality of base stations including at least one home base station defining a home cell associated with said first user equipment and not with said second user equipment, said home cell overlapping in coverage with a communications cell usable by both said first and second user equipments, a method for measuring a home cell in order to transfer a user equipment from a communications cell operated by a source base station to a said home cell operated by a target home base station comprising steps of: receiving security information based on information exchanged during an initiating connection, by said target home base station, from said first user equipment of an idle mode via said source base station, if the initiating connection is established on said home cell; validating, by said target home base station, whether said first user equipment is authorized to connect to said home cell using the security information; and accepting, by said target home base station, connection establishment of said first user equipment if said first user equipment is authorized to connect to said home cell, wherein said home cell operates on a frequency unused by other network cells.