Patent ID: 7480507

Claim:
A mobile communication terminal capable of making a roaming connection, comprising: location registration requesting means for requesting a location registration with a first roamed mobile communication network and transmitting the location registration request to a home mobile communication network of a telecommunications carrier in contract with a user of the mobile communication terminal; access point information receiving means for receiving access point information from the home mobile communication network via the first roamed mobile communication network after the mobile communication terminal has requests the location registration with the first roamed mobile communication network, said access point information containing information about roamed mobile communication networks in a location of the first roamed mobile communication network; searching means for searching the roamed mobile communication networks in the location of the first roamed mobile communication network; and wherein the location registration requesting means requests a location registration with the roamed mobile communication networks in a predetermined order contained in the access point information received by the access point information receiving means, among the roamed mobile communication networks detected by the searching means.