Patent ID: 8787233

Claim:
A method of providing a terminal with system information which enables the terminal to access a particular cell of a plurality of cells of a cellular telecommunications system, comprising: transmitting from the cellular telecommunications system to said terminal, a system information indicator that makes available, to the terminal, system information to provide access by the terminal to the particular cell of the cellular telecommunications system, wherein the system information indicator makes the system information available from a non-broadcast source, wherein the system information indicator directs the terminal to retrieve the system information from a store, the store being the non-broadcast source, and use the system information to access the particular cell of the cellular telecommunications system, wherein the system information retrieved by the terminal from the store to provide access to the particular cell is specific to the terminal and enables access to the particular cell for a package of services which the terminal is authorized to use, wherein the system information of any of the plurality of cells is stored in the store independently of whether the terminal has previously accessed any of the plurality of cells, and wherein new system information for a new cell of the plurality of cells, that has been previously unaccessed by the terminal, is thereby available to the terminal from the store.