PAGING ON SELECTED FREQUENCIES IN CELLULAR NETWORKS

A paging procedure of a mobile telecommunications system is modified to page a terminal (UE 1) using all the transceiver node cells (cell c) in the coverage area (TA y) allocated to the terminal (UE 1) that operate in the frequency bands (Fq i) indicated by frequency band capability data for the terminal (UE 1), but not using the transceiver node cells (cells e) in the coverage area (TA y) allocated to the terminal (UE 1) that operate only in other ones of the frequency bands (Fq ii). In one embodiment a control entity (32) is operable to initiate an initial paging procedure by paging based on the characteristic of the terminal (UE 1) obtained by the control entity (32), and to initiate a subsequent paging procedure if no paging response is received from the terminal (UE 1). In a further embodiment coverage area allocation means allocates each of the transceiver node cells (cells a-f) to one or more of the coverage areas (TA x, TA y, TA z) in dependence upon on which of the frequency bands (fq i, fq ii, fq iii) the cell is capable of communicating