FIELD: radio engineering and communications.
SUBSTANCE: base station receives (S701) from the terminal an information element informing the base station of a combination of bands, which the terminal supports for carrier aggregation, the terminal supports MBMS reception on any carrier configurable as a serving cell for the terminal according to the information element; the base station deriving (S703) from the received information element of the possibility MBMS reception capabilities of the terminal; and the base station determines (S704) a number of carriers, which are configurable by the base station as serving cell of the terminal, such that the terminal is enabled to receive at least one MBMS.
EFFECT: to support multimedia broadcast multicast services, MBMS for the terminal.
30 cl, 10 dwg
