METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF SYSTEM INFORMATION IN A CELLULAR NETWORK

The present invention relates to a method for transmitting system information items from a base station of a cellular network to a first user equipment and a second user equipment, the base station is configured to provide a plurality of system information items, and the first user equipment belongs to a first type of user equipment and the second user equipment belongs to a second type of user equipment, different from the first type,upon reception of a request for system information from the first and second user equipment, the method comprising the steps of:- collecting each a subset of the system information items considering the type of user equipment in a set of system information messages for the respective type of user equipment, and- providing each of said set of system information message to the requesting user equipment,wherein at least one system information item is collected in the set of system information messages for the first type of user equipment and said at least one system information item is lacking in the set of system information messages for the second type of user equipment.