Patent ID: 7929967

Claim:
A user equipment configured to select a wireless network of a first type to communicate through, the user equipment comprising: a receiver configured to receive a network identifier that contains information that identifies geographical location of a network of a second type of wireless network, the information including a country code and a network code sent by the network of the second type of wireless networks; a first list of a plurality of wireless networks of the first type, the first list having indicia identifying each of the first type of wireless networks and having information that identifies the geographical location of each wireless network in the list, each wireless network contained in the first list having a corresponding selection criteria attribute, the attribute categorizes the first list and each wireless network contained in the first list with a common preference; and a selector coupled to receive a network identifier of a network of a first type of wireless network and coupled to said receiver to receive an indication of the network identifier received at said receiver, the selector configured to select a network of the first type of wireless networks through which to communicate, selection made of a network by comparing the information identifying geographic information received by said receiver and the network identifier received by said selector with the indicia identifying the first wireless networks and associated information identifying geographical location in the first list.