The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for forcing a
mobile device to handover from a first cellular network radio access
technology (RAT) to a second radio access technology (RAT) different from
the first cellular network radio access technology. The method comprises:
establishing a connection with the mobile device using the first cellular
network radio access technology; sending a handover command to the device
using the first cellular network radio access technology, the handover
command including details of radio resources of the second cellular
network radio access technology; and establishing a connection with the
mobile device using the radio resources of the second cellular network
radio access technology which were specified in the handover command.
These steps are each performed by a separately introduced base station
which is not under the control of a cellular network.