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Apparatus and method for controlling communications in a multi-network, wireless communication system

US5920818A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 3, 1996
Grant dateJul 6, 1999
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Expiry dateDec 3, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W36/14
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus, and an associated method, controls operation of a mobile terminal operable in a communication system having two network portions. Selective permission of cell selection of communications between the two network portions better assures that the mobile terminal, when positioned in an area intended to be encompassed by one of the network portions, communicates with that network portion.

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