Telecommunication receiver and terminal of global system for mobile communications

The invention provides a telecommunication receiver and a terminal of a global system for mobile communications. The telecom receiver, adapted to decode data transmitted as a plurality of data-bursts, comprises a decoder for receiving a first one of the plurality of data-bursts and hypothesis data corresponding to one or the plurality of unreceived data-bursts, and attempting to decode the data; and a cyclic redundancy checker, coupled to the decoder and adapted to perform redundancy check of the decoding information generated by the decoder, so as to check whether the decoding is successful. If the decoding is successful, the telecommunication receiver is powered down, and if the decoding is unsuccessful, a further one of the data-bursts is received and the decoding steps are repeated, until all of the data has been received.