Selective reception of cell broadcast service

Abstract

According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, a new approach for receiving the CBS message is proposed. Generally speaking, in response to receiving a CBS message from a network device, a terminal device will determine an attribute of the CBS message. Then, the terminal device will determine a policy for receiving a further CBS message based on the determined attribute. That is, the policy is determined through a self-learning process performed on the received CBS message (s). In this way, the power consumption of the terminal device for receiving the CBS messages can be reduced. As a result, the battery life of the terminal device can be guaranteed.

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