Patent ID: 8275374

Claim:
A network name displaying method for use in a mobile wireless terminal, the method comprising: maintaining access, via a subscriber identity module interface, to a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) list and a preferred PLMN list which are stored in a subscriber identity module, the HPLMN list identifying a plurality of HPLMNs of the mobile wireless terminal and the preferred PLMN list identifying a plurality of preferred PLMNs; maintaining access, via the subscriber identity module interface, to a home network display name which is stored in the subscriber identity module, the home network display name being associated with the HPLMN list; and registering with a PLMN; comparing an identification of the registered PLMN with a plurality of HPLMN identifications in the HPLMN list; and in response to identifying a match between the identification of the registered PLMN and one of the HPLMN identifications in the HPLMN list, displaying the home network display name when the mobile wireless terminal registers on a HPLMN identified in associated with the HPLMN list, the home network display name being utilized for display for each one of the HPLMNs identified in the HPLMN list when the mobile wireless terminal registers on the HPLMN a single home network display name associated with the HPLMN list and being the same for all of the HPLMN identifications in the HPLMN list.