METHOD OF OPERATING A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

Abstract: a method of operating a wireless telecommunications network, said network comprising a plurality of user equipment devices, ues, a wireless access point, wap, and a wireless local area network, wlan, provided by means of the wap, the method comprising the steps of: associating, against each of the plurality of ues, an item of information and a unique timeslot; determining a current time, and from said determination identifying, from the associated timeslots, a timeslot within which the current time coincides; broadcasting, by means of the wap, for the wlan, a network identifier comprising the item of information associated with the identified timeslot; identifying, by means of each of the ues, the broadcast network identifier; and subsequently processing, by means of the ue associated with the identified timeslot, the identified network identifier, such that said ue derives the item of information allocated to said ue.

Inventor(s): Ian NEILD, Andrew REEVES

CPC Classification: H04W48/10 (using broadcasted information)

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