METHOD FOR IDLE HANDOFF TO A BASE STATION SUPPORTING NEW COMMON CHANNELS TERMINAL

摘要

Disclosed is a method for performing an idle handoff when a mobile station moves from a coverage of a first base station not supporting new common channels into the coverage of a second neighboring base station of a CDMA third generation network supporting new common channels, whereby an overhead message contained in the paging channel is transmitted from the second base station. Said overhead message contains an information of a Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH) and said information is extracted in order to select the BCCH frequency to monitor the Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH) by the mobile station.