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<h2>Benefits of IMSI-Based Handover</h2>

<p>IMSI based handover will benefit roaming based mobile services
provisioning and network sharing concepts by enabling handover control to
direct subscribers from the shared or roamed network to the subscribers Home
PLMN. The current solution is to allow the same handover path for all mobiles
and let the mobiles find their home or authorised network in idle mode.</p>


<p>The main benefit of IMSI-Based Handover is that the access of the partners'
subscribers can be limited to defined cells only in order to maintain service
preference to own subscribers. The partners can prefer their own cells and
thus optimise costs caused by network visits.</p>


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