Patent ID: 8224329

Claim:
In a mobile telecommunications system comprising: a network including a plurality of base stations for defining communications cells; and first and second user equipments for communicating with the network, the plurality of base stations including at least one home base station defining a home cell associated with the first user equipment and not with the second user equipment, the home cell overlapping in coverage with a communications cell usable by both the first and second user equipments, a method for measuring a home cell comprising the steps of: acquiring, at the network, position data indicative of the position of the first user equipment; determining whether the first user equipment is close to the home cell by using the acquired position data; sending a cell measurement control message from the network to the first user equipment via a base station specifying measurements of the home cell when the first user equipment is close to the home cell; performing, at the first user equipment a fine position measurement; determining at the first user equipment whether the first user equipment is close to the home cell, based on the fine position measurement; and taking measurements of the home cell at the first user equipment when the first user equipment is close to the home cell.