A method of identifying areas for improving radio communications coverage
in a mobile radio network under analysis. The method comprises detecting
cancel location signalling data, update location signalling data and
service signalling data. The cancel location signalling data is generated
to cancel a registration of mobile user equipment from a visitor
subscriber database of the analyzed mobile radio network. The cancel
location signalling data includes mobile subscriber identifiers of the
mobile user equipment. The location update signalling data informs the
home subscriber database of the home network of the mobile user equipment
that the mobile user equipment is to be registered as having roamed to a
visitor subscriber database of at least one other mobile network. The
location update signalling data includes identifiers of the visitor
subscriber database and the mobile subscriber identifier of the user
equipment being registered. The service signalling data is associated
with mobile originated calls made by mobile user equipment as part of
service provisioning to the mobile radio network being analyzed. The
service signalling data includes mobile subscriber identifiers of the
mobile user equipment and identifiers of cells of the analyzed mobile
radio network from which the mobile originated calls were made. The
method includes correlating the cancel location signalling data and the
update location signalling data with respect to the mobile subscriber
identifiers of the mobile user equipment to identify mobile subscribers
lost to the other mobile network. The method identifies areas of relative
loss of service of the analyzed mobile radio network by identifying, from
the subscriber identity numbers, a number of the lost mobile subscribers
which had made mobile originated calls from cells identified by the cell
identifiers of the service signalling data.