Methods and apparatuses for communicating content data to a communications terminal from a local data store

A method of communicating content data via data packets using a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network including a core network part having a plurality of infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including a plurality of base stations providing a wireless access interface for communicating data packets to or from communications terminals, the method comprising:

• providing in the radio network part or the core network part a local data store having stored therein content data, which has been received from an applications server via the core network part,
• receiving, from a communications terminal, a request to access the content data from the applications server,
• identifying that the content data is stored in the local data store, and
• communicating the content data to the communications terminal from the local data store as if the content data had been communicated from the applications server by transmitting signaling messages to the communications terminal in accordance with a communications protocol indicating that the signaling messages were communicated from a packet data network gateway through which the applications server is accessible.

An infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network including a core network part, and a radio network part including a plurality of base stations providing a wireless access interface for communicating data packets to or from communications terminals, the infrastructure equipment comprising:

• a local data store having stored therein content data, which has been received from an applications server via the core network part, processing circuitry of the infrastructure equipment being configured
• to receive, from a communications terminal, a request to access the content data from the applications server,
• to identify that the content data is stored in the local data store, and
• to communicate the content data to the communications terminal from the local data store as if the content data had been communicated from the applications server by transmitting signaling messages to the communications terminal in accordance with a communications protocol indicating that the signaling messages were communicated from a packet data network gateway through which the applications server is accessible.