Patent ID: 8116766

Claim:
A method for optimizing a search of a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) by a mobile communications terminal having at least one nonvolatile memory and at least one Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card, comprising: searching for a PLMN based on priority information registered in the SIM card; regarding the PLMN that has been found, determining whether the SIM card includes any priority information about at least one particular radio access technology associated with the PLMN; when priority information is included in the SIM card, selecting a cell of the PLMN; when priority information is not included in the SIM card, determining whether the nonvolatile memory includes any information about at least one particular radio access technology to be selected on a priority basis in a country of the PLMN; when priority information is included in the nonvolatile memory, selecting a cell of the PLMN for which the particular radio access technology has been developed; and when priority information is not included in the nonvolatile memory, selecting a cell, where a radio access technology, which has been set by default in the nonvolatile memory for all countries that are not listed in the nonvolatile memory.