Mobile communication system capable of avoiding local congestion

Claim 1

A mobile communication system comprising: an integrated service digital network (ISDN); a plurality of mobile base stations directly connected to said ISDN as subscribers of said ISDN, each of said mobile base stations comprising means for receiving a call request with a destination subscriber number from one of a plurality of mobile stations, and means for transmitting to said ISDN a call information signal including an identification of said one of said mobile stations and the destination subscriber number; a home memory station, directly connected to said ISDN as a subscriber of said ISDN, for storing update location information of said plurality of mobile stations with respect to said mobile base stations, said home memory station comprising: (i) means for receiving said call information signal and for searching the stored update location information to determine to which mobile base stations the destination subscriber number belongs, and (ii) means for returning an information signal including an ISDN subscriber number of at least one of said mobile base stations to which the destination subscriber number belongs and an identification number of the destination subscriber number via said ISDN to said one of said mobile base stations, wherein each of said mobile base stations further comprises: (i) means for receiving said information signal and for establishing a call connection to at least one of said mobile base stations, without passing through said home memory station, based on the ISDN subscriber number thereof, and (ii) means for calling one of said mobile stations having the identification number of the destination subscriber number.