Alcatel Lucent

Andrew Zaporozhets

Hai Zhou

Mohammad Ather Khan

A method of controlling a base station, a network controller, a base station, a telecommunications network and a computer program product are disclosed. A method of controlling a base station () in a mobile telecommunications network () comprises the steps of: (i) determining whether a base station within the mobile telecommunications network is not supporting user equipment () and, if so, then (ii) signalling the base station to reduce its transmission power. An assessment is made as to whether a base station is currently supporting user equipment. If a base station is currently supporting user equipment, then that base station is unlikely to be a candidate to have its power reduced since support to that user equipment needs to be maintained. However, if a base station is not supporting user equipment, then that base station would appear to be a likely candidate for transmission power reduction, thereby saving power in the network at those locations where it is possible to do so.

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Chippenham, United Kingdom

Andrew Zaporozhets