COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL AND METHOD

摘要

A communications terminal receives content data via data packets from a mobile communications network. The mobile communications network comprises a core network part having a plurality of infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including a plurality of base stations for providing a wireless access interface for communicating data to or from the communications terminal. The communications terminal is configured to transmit a request for content data to an applications server which is connected to the core network part of the mobile communications network, the content data being accessible from the applications server, and to receive in response to the request for the content data from the applications server the content data from a local data store associated with an edge node of the mobile communications network, after the mobile communications network has stored the content data in the local data store after predetermined conditions have been satisfied that the content data is to be cached by storing the content data in the local data store associated with the edge node. The edge node may be for example one of the base stations.