Patent ID: 8600388

Claim:
A method for cell reselection in a user equipment UE for use in a mobile telecommunications system, in which the UE is arranged to receive a plurality of system information blocks SIBs including a primary SIB and a secondary SIB of the same type and in which the UE is camped on a first cell, and in which the cells listed comprise a second cell for reselection; the method comprising: conditional on receipt of the secondary SIB before receipt of the primary SIB; starting measurements, and cell reselection evaluation, of cells listed in the secondary SIB; reselecting to the second cell conditional upon satisfying a predetermined criteria; and in which the predetermined criteria relates to a quality of the first cell, and in which the predetermined criteria comprises: a received signal strength of the first cell or a signal-to-interference ratio of the first cell is below a threshold; the UE has attempted to receive the primary SIB for more than a predetermined period of time; or for a communications channel carrying the SIBs, an indication of errors on the channel is above a threshold.