BEARER SETUP FOR A MULTIMEDIA SERVICE

摘要

A method of controlling the establishment of a packet switched bearer or bearers for carrying multimedia information between two or more user terminals during a circuit switched voice call, the method comprising at setup of or during the voice call, predicting at one of the user terminals the likelihood that multimedia information will be exchanged between the user terminals during the voice call based upon properties stored at that terminal for the or each other user or user terminal, and automatically establishing said bearer or not, based upon the prediction.