There is provided with a radio terminal which is assigned one or more frequency channel to carry out downlink communication with a base station, including: a reception unit configured to receive signals of a plurality of frequency channels from the base station; a quality measuring unit configured to measure communication quality of each frequency channel; a priority setting unit configured to set priority for each frequency channel; a transmission unit configured to transmit communication quality information indicating communication quality of each frequency channel in descending order of priority to the base station; and a control unit configured to provide a signal instructing to stop transmission of the communication quality information to the transmission unit upon receiving a transmission stop instruction for instructing to stop transmission of the communication quality information from the base station.