Managing negotiation of extended idle mode discontinuous reception parameters between a user equipment and a core network device

The integrated circuit card device of 13, wherein the request is a first request and wherein the operations further comprise:

• directing the device to send a second request to the network device requesting usage of the device value in connection with the operating in the idle mode based on the number being determined to be less than the threshold retry number.

The integrated circuit card device of 13, wherein the network value for the idle mode parameter was previously received by the device from the network device in response to a previous request, which was sent by the device to the network device, wherein the previous request was for authorization to use the device value for the idle mode parameter in connection with the device operating in the idle mode, and wherein the device previously employed the network value for the idle mode parameter in connection with the device operating in the idle mode.

A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a device, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• determining a number of times the device was previously instructed by a network device of a wireless communication network to use a network timer value for a discontinuous reception period of an idle mode instead of a device timer value for the discontinuous reception period for when the device is operating in the idle mode;
• and
• determining, based on a comparison of the number to a threshold retry number, whether to request permission from the network device to use the device timer value or the network timer value for the idle mode parameter in association with the device operating in the idle mode.