Infrastructure equipment and method

An infrastructure equipment for forming part of a mobile communications network for communicating data to and/or from a mobile communications device, the infrastructure equipment comprising:

• circuitry configured to
• receive, from the mobile communications device, an indication of a relative access type of data packets to access a communications bearer configured to support a communication session of the mobile communications device, the indication of the relative access type of the data packets being used to configure the communications bearer, and the indication of the relative access type of the data packets including a device type indication and an application type indication of a relative priority of the data packets with respect to communication of data packets via one or more other communication bearers of the mobile communications network,
• dynamically configure the communications bearers based on the received indication,
• provide the dynamically configured communications bearer for communication of data with the mobile communications device in accordance with the indication of the relative access type of the data packets, and
• control communication of the data packets via the dynamically configured communications bearer in accordance with the relative access type of data packets communicated via the communications bearer,
• wherein the device type indication includes a machine-type communications (MTC) capable device indication,
• wherein the application type indication includes an MTC application indication, and
• wherein the indication of the relative access type of the data packets that includes the device type indication and the application type indication of the relative priority of the data packets is provided in an access stratum (AS) access message and a non-access stratum (NAS) access message.