Method and device for accessing a network

Abstract

This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and provides a communication method, including: receiving, by a mobility management network element, first information from a terminal device; obtaining a user equipment context of the terminal device in a public network and a user equipment context of the terminal device in a private network based on the first information; and using the user equipment context of the terminal device in the public network and the user equipment context of the terminal device in the private network as a user equipment context of the terminal device. According to the solution provided in embodiments, the user equipment context of the terminal device includes the user equipment context in the public network and the user equipment context in the private network, so that the terminal device can access both the public network and the private network, thereby improving user experience.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.