RADIO TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING OPERATION OF A COMBINED MOBILE TELEPHONE AND PAGER

摘要

The present invention is a method within a radio telecommunications network for delivering a telephone call to a mobile station (1) having a telephone portion (3), a pager portion (5), and a relay switch (21) between the telephone portion and the pager portion. Data indicating that the mobile station is capable of receiving standard paging messages from a paging network (49) is recorded in a home location register (HLR) associated with the mobile station. The method enables a subscriber to turn off the telephone portion (3) to conserve battery power. When a call is received in a cellular network (43) for the mobile station, and the mobile station cannot be contacted, the cellular network requests an associated paging network (49) to send a page (51) to the pager portion (5). The paging network is requested to page the pager portion of the mobile station via a datalink (47) from the cellular network. The pager portion (5) then activates the telephone portion (3) through the relay switch (21), and the cellular network (43) completes the call.