The invention relates to a telecommunications method in which multidestination information is transmitted from a terminal or from a server to a plurality of destinations using a protocol of the same type as the Internet Protocol (IP), and a control unit, such as a router, is provided to detect the presence of at least one destination. One destination or at most a limited number of destinations (72) is assigned a group representative function. That destination periodically sends a presence signal (62) to the control unit (54). The method can be used in a satellite telecommunications system. It requires less signaling than the IGMP.