Methods and apparatus for transitioning a ue between base stations

A base station comprising:

• a handover request receive module configured to receive a handover request corresponding to a UE;
• and
• a handover request type determination module configured to determine whether said handover request should be responded to with valid radio resource information or intentionally faulty radio resource information which if used by the UE to attempt a connection to the target base station will result in a failure to connect.

A non-transitory machine readable medium including processor executable instructions which when executed by a processor of a target network device, control the target network device to perform the steps of:

• receiving a handover request corresponding to a UE;
• and
• determining, at the target network device, whether said handover request should be responded to with valid radio resource information or intentionally faulty radio resource information which if used by the UE to attempt a connection to the target base station will result in a failure to connect.