Communications terminal and method

A method of communicating a short message data packet from a communications terminal via a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network comprising radio network circuitry including a plurality of base stations configured to communicate data packets to or from the mobile communications terminals, including the communications terminal, via a radio access interface, and core network circuitry configured to communicate the data packets to destination addresses from the radio network part or to communicate the data packets to the radio network part from source addresses, the method comprising:

• establishing one or more communications bearers for communicating the data packets to or from the communications terminal via the radio network circuitry and the core network circuitry, each of the one or more communications bearers being established using context information associated with one or more connections from the communications terminal to the destination addresses, or to the communications terminal from source addresses, wherein said establishing includes:
• establishing a radio communications bearer for communicating the short message data packet from the communications terminal to the base station, and
• when in an idle state, using predetermined parameters to configure a transmitter of the communications terminal, which correspond with parameters with which a receiver in the base station is configured to receive the short message data packet, the short message data packet including an indication of context information for use by the mobile communications network for communicating the short message data packet to a Mobility Management Entity (MME) of the mobile communications network,
• wherein the predetermined parameters for configuring the transmitter of the communications terminal with the effect that the short message data packet is communicable to the base station include at least one of a power control level setting a power with which a radio signal representing the short message data packet is transmitted, modulation and encoding of the short message data packet for communicating the short message data packet from the communications terminal to the base station using the radio signal.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method of communicating a short message data packet from a communications terminal via a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network comprising radio network circuitry including a plurality of base stations configured to communicate data packets to or from the communications terminals, including the communications terminal, via a radio access interface, and core network circuitry configured to communicate the data packets to destination addresses from the radio network circuitry or to communicate the data packets to the radio network circuitry from source addresses, the method comprising:

• establishing one or more communications bearers for communicating the data packets to or from the communications terminal via the radio network circuitry and the core network circuitry, each of the one or more communications bearers being established using context information associated with one or more connections from the communications terminal to the destination addresses, or to the communications terminal from source addresses, wherein said establishing includes:
• establishing a radio communications bearer for communicating the short message data packet from the communications terminal to the base station, and
• when in an idle state, using predetermined parameters to configure a transmitter of the communications terminal, which correspond with parameters with which a receiver in the base station is configured to receive the short message data packet, the short message data packet including an indication of context information for use by the mobile communications network for communicating the short message data packet to a Mobility Management Entity (MME) of the mobile communications network,
• wherein the predetermined parameters for configuring the transmitter of the communications terminal with the effect that the short message data packet is communicable to the base station include at least one of a power control level setting a power with which a radio signal representing the short message data packet is transmitted, modulation and encoding of the short message data packet for communicating the short message data packet from the communications terminal to the base station using the radio signal.