Transferring coverage enhancement information from terminal adapter to terminal equipment

A method, comprising:

• sending, by a terminal adapter of a user equipment comprising a processor, to a network equipment of a serving cell, a coverage enhancement report used by the network equipment to provide coverage enhancement information, the coverage enhancement information comprising an indication of whether the network equipment supports coverage enhancement;
• and
• activating, by the terminal adapter, monitoring for the coverage enhancement information in response to the terminal adapter receiving a command to turn on monitoring from a terminal equipment of the user equipment, wherein the monitoring comprises:
• receiving, by the terminal adapter from the network equipment, the coverage enhancement information, and
• sending, by the terminal adapter, the coverage enhancement information to the terminal equipment of the user equipment during the monitoring and only in response to the terminal adapter determining that the coverage enhancement information has changed from previous coverage enhancement information sent to the terminal equipment.

A user equipment, comprising:

• a terminal equipment;
• a terminal adapter;
• a processor;
• and
• a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
• sending, by the terminal adapter to a network equipment of a serving cell, a coverage enhancement report used by the network equipment to provide coverage enhancement information, the coverage enhancement information comprising an indication of whether the network equipment supports coverage enhancement;
• sending, by the terminal equipment, a communication command to the terminal adapter that is not currently monitoring for the coverage enhancement information, wherein the communication command instructs the terminal adapter to turn on monitoring for the coverage enhancement information, wherein the monitoring comprises:
• receiving, by the terminal adapter from the network equipment, the coverage enhancement information, and
• sending, by the terminal adapter, the coverage enhancement information to the terminal equipment during the monitoring and only in response to the terminal adapter determining that the coverage enhancement information has changed from previous coverage enhancement information sent to the terminal equipment;
• receiving, by the terminal equipment, in response to the communication command, the coverage enhancement information from the terminal adapter;
• and
• enabling, by the terminal equipment, access to the coverage enhancement information to an application program running on the user equipment.