The present invention is directed to the use of concatenatable
Point-To-MultiPoint (PTMP) broadcast messages for displaying display
messages, and in particular long display messages requiring two or more
PTMP broadcast messages, on personal cellular telecommunications devices.
The present invention is achieved by the provision of a pseudo-header
including a display message identifier, a PTMP broadcast message field
for specifying the number P.gtoreq.1 of PTMP broadcast messages to
transport an entire display message, and a PTMP broadcast message counter
Q=(1, 2, . . . , P-1, P) for specifying the location of a PTMP broadcast
message in that sequence. A pseudo-header may alternatively enable
concatenation of two or more macromessages into a supermacromessage.