A wireless (radio) communication system having a high-speed packet communication function, which is based on an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) system, the wireless communication system including a base station control device, the base station control device including a unit receiving from a handover source base station, when handover of a wireless terminal occurs between plural base stations under control, residual packet information about a packet remaining untransmitted to the wireless terminal from the handover source base station, and a unit transmitting, when receiving the residual packet information, a packet corresponding to the residual packet information to a handover destination base station in preference to a packet in a next transmission standby status.