RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL PROCEDURE FOR QUERY OF SERVICE PROVIDERS

摘要

Various communication systems may benefit from improved network connectivity through an available service provider. For example, certain communication systems may benefit from informing a user equipment of the available service providers without having to first establish an RRC connection. A method includes sending from a user equipment a radio resource control query request message to a network entity. The method also includes receiving at the user equipment a query response message in response to the radio resource control query request message. In addition, the method includes selecting at the user equipment a service provider based on the query response message.