A wireless communication terminal is disclosed which has mass data such as
stream data delivered thereto efficiently over a wireless communication
network so that the overall utilization efficiency of the network is
improved as well. While a wireless communication terminal (100) is
receiving stream data for its use, a main controller (120) checks a radio
wave reception level LB coming from a receiver unit (103) in the
terminal. If the reception level is found to drop below a predetermined
level, the main controller (100) causes a frequency synthesizer (105) to
control reception frequencies fed to the receiver unit (103) so as to
receive radio waves from a plurality of base stations in the vicinity. A
search is thus made for a base station which offers a radio wave
reception level higher than the predetermined level and which is
delivering the stream data in question, and that base station is selected
preferentially.