摘要 |
The invention comprises an operating method of a terminal device, which is configured for radio communication via different frequency bands, in performing a network scan, the method comprising:
- receiving a command for starting a network scan (S10);
- in response to receiving the command, attempting a synchronization with predefined control channels on all frequency bands receivable by the terminal device or on a subset thereof comprising a plurality of the frequency bands (S20), and, upon successful synchronization with a respective one of the control channels, ascertaining respective network-configuration information provided via the respective control channel by a respective network (S22);
- determining (S24), using the network-configuration information ascertained, an estimate of a quantity indicative of an achievable data throughput, hereinafter throughput estimate, associated with the respective ascertained network-configuration information;
- generating and providing an output, which is indicative of at least one of the determined throughput estimates for the respective network configurations (S28). |