Patent ID: 8639260

Claim:
A mobile telecommunications network, comprising: a core; and a radio access network having a radio that wirelessly communicates over a coverage area with mobile terminals registered with the network, wherein the radio access network includes a controller that controls allocation of network resources to the mobile terminals, and wherein the controller is operable to: gauge radio conditions available to the mobile terminals and control transmission of data between the radio access network and the mobile terminals in dependence thereon; calculate the location and velocity of at least one of mobile terminals and control the transmission of data in dependence thereon, predict a future location of the at least one of the mobile terminals based on the calculated location and velocity of the mobile terminals; use a record of radio quality across the coverage area to estimate the radio conditions available to the at least one mobile terminal at the future location and control the transmission of data between the radio access network and the at least one mobile terminal at the calculated location in dependence thereon; and perform at least one of: (i) increase an amount of data transmitted at the calculated location of the at least one mobile terminal if the radio conditions at the future location are predicted to be below a quality threshold, or (ii) decrease the amount of data transmitted at the calculated location of the at least one mobile terminal if the radio conditions at the future location are predicted to be above the quality threshold, wherein the transmitted data is stored on a memory of the at least one mobile terminal.