A wireless network and a method of handover of a call connection

摘要

A method of handover of a call connection with a user terminal from a first base station for wireless telecommunications to a second base station for wireless communications comprising identifying the second base station from amongst a group of handover candidate base stations by providing the base stations in the group with the uplink scrambling code used by the user terminal, the base stations in the group seeking to detect a signal from the user terminal encoded with that uplink scrambling code, the or each base station that detects said signal informing the first base station, the first base station selecting as said second base station for handover the base station or one of the base stations that informed of detecting said signal.