A method for providing system information (SI) performed by a base station (BS) is provided. The method includes: broadcasting a system information block type 1 (SIB1) associated with a cell; receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a first message including a common control channel (CCCH) service data unit (SDU), the CCCH SDU including a radio resource control (RRC) SI request message; and transmitting, to the UE, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) including a UE contention resolution identity that matches a portion of the CCCH SDU. The MAC CE enables a MAC entity of the UE to indicate reception of an acknowledgment for the RRC SI request message to an RRC entity of the UE. The SIB1 does not include information related to a Random Access (RA) resource specific to SI requested by the RRC SI request message.

A system may receive a request from the UE device to establish a session over a user plane of a network; establish a session over the user plane in response to the request from the UE device; receive, at a first node, uplink IP data from the UE device over the session; redirect the received IP data at the first node to a second node for translating IP data to a T8 message; translate, at the second node, the redirected IP data to a first T8 message; and forward the first T8 message to an application server or an application function (AF) node.

A method and an apparatus for wireless communications are provided. The method is performed by a UE and includes: reading system information of a plurality of cells on a first carrier frequency to obtain identification information of a plurality of PLMNs; reporting, by an AS entity of the UE, the identification information of the plurality of PLMNs to a NAS entity of the UE; selecting, by the NAS of the UE, one of the plurality of PLMNs as a selected PLMN; searching for the plurality of cells on the first carrier frequency during a cell selection procedure; and selecting a suitable cell belonging to the selected PLMN from the plurality of cells on the first carrier frequency based on the cell selection procedure.

A method for an interconnection functionality between a first mobile communication network and a second mobile communication network includes: associating or assigning private identifier information to specific public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier information related to the second mobile communication network; and in respect of signalling messages and/or data traffic packets that are to be routed or to be addressed or to be processed, providing for or supporting, by a network identifier and number translating functionality, a replacement and/or a translation, in both directions, between the private identifier information and the specific PLMN identifier information related to the second mobile communication network.

A random access method for a terminal includes: receiving a system message broadcasted by a target base station and initiating random access to the target base station; in response to a failure of the random access, determining a first operator to which the target base station belongs based on a first PLMN identity in the plurality of PLMN identities; and in response to a second operator, to which the terminal belongs, being different from the first operator, stopping a random access retry to the target base station and initiating random access to other base station except the target base station. The system message includes a plurality of public land mobile network (PLMN) identities with an order relationship.

Presented herein are techniques to facilitate fast roaming between a mobile network operator-public (MNO-public) wireless wide area (WWA) access network and an enterprise private WWA access network. In one example, a method is provided that may include generating, by an authentication node, authentication material for a user equipment (UE) based on the UE being connected to a public WWA access network, wherein the public WWA access network is associated with a mobile network operator, and the authentication node and the UE are associated with an enterprise entity; obtaining, by the authentication node, an indication that the UE is attempting to access a private WWA access network associated with the enterprise entity; and providing, by the authentication node, the authentication material for the UE, wherein the authentication material facilitates connection establishment between the UE and the private WWA access network.

Disclosed here is a system and method to determine which wireless telecommunication network functionalities are impaired when using end-to-end encryption and to ameliorate the impairment of the functionality. The system receives a request from a sender device to communicate with a receiver device, where the request indicates whether the sender device is capable of an end-to-end encryption. The system determines whether the receiver device is capable of the end-to-end encryption, and whether the receiver device is associated with a functionality provided by a wireless telecommunication network that is impaired when the end-to-end encryption is used. Upon determining that the receiver device is not capable of the end-to-end encryption or that the receiver device is associated with the functionality that is impaired, the system performs an action to ameliorate the impairment to the functionality.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to reducing or making more efficient handovers from one cell to another cell in a communications network. The method includes receiving mobility data for a device being serviced by a first cell, classifying the device based on the mobility data to yield a classification and making a handoff decision when handing off the device from the first cell to a second cell based at least in part on the classification. An example of the mobility data is a speed at which the device is moving or time a device is in a cell.

The present disclosure provides a method of sending an inter-base station message between a first and second base station in a cellular telecommunications network, wherein the inter-base station message is transmitted via a relay component, the method including the relay component receiving a first inter-base station message from a first base station, wherein the first inter-base station message includes: a first address portion identifying a second and third base station, and a first content portion; the relay component transmitting a second inter-base station message to the second base station, the second inter-base station message including: a second address portion identifying the second base station, and a second content portion; and the relay component transmitting a third inter-base station message to the third base station, the third inter-base station message including: a third address portion identifying the third base station, and a third content portion, wherein the second and third content portions include the first content portion.

A method at a computing device acting as a switchboard between an electronic device and a device to be updated, the method including receiving, at the computing device, a connection request from the electronic device, the connection request including an identifier for the device to be updated; receiving, at the computing device, a connection request from the device to be updated; associating, at the computing device, the connection request from the electronic device and the connection request from the device to be updated; forwarding, at the computing device, a message from the device to be updated to the electronic device that update conditions have been met; forwarding, at the computing device, a message from the electronic device to the device to be updated to start an update process; and forwarding, at the computing device, update status information from the device to be updated to the electronic device.