Patent ID: 7957739

Claim:
A method of receiving Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) information about neighbor cells in a network sharing system, comprising: receiving a PLMN list included in system information broadcast from a current cell in which a user equipment (UE) is located, the PLMN list including at least one PLMN information about one or more neighbor cells; identifying a neighbor cell corresponding to the received PLMN information based on an order of the PLMN information in the PLMN list; and acquiring PLMN information of a specific neighbor cell based on the results of the identified, wherein, if the first position of the PLMN list is determined to be empty, then a neighbor cell corresponding to the first position in the PLMN list is determined to have the same PLMN configuration as the current cell, and wherein, if any position other than the first position of the PLMN list is determined to be empty, then a neighbor cell corresponding to the empty position in the PLMN list is determined to have the same PLMN configuration of a neighbor cell that corresponds to a position that is previous to the empty position in the PLMN list.