DELIVERY OF ANNOUNCEMENTS TO A USER OF A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM WHEN ROAMING IN A NETWORK AWAY FROM THE USER'S HOME NETWORK

摘要

A telecommunications system is provided with a node (50) for running service logic programs in response to corresponding service requests. More particularly, upon a service request being received, a service logic program (58) held at the node is used to deliver content (62) to the user to provide an initial response. Whilst this response is being delivered, the node (50) retrieves a second service logic program (55), specific to the service request, from a remote location (53), for example, from an Internet-connected server. The second program (55) is executed at the node (50) in coordination with the completion of execution of the first service logic program (58) and may result in further content (57) being delivered to the user, this content also having been retrieved from a remote location.