When a first
base station serving a mobile communication terminal in a standby mode, a first neighbor
list is acquired from the first
base station and stored in a memory. If the serving
base station is changed in a standby mode from the first base
station to a second base
station, a second neighbor
list is acquired from the second base
station. When the second base station is serving the mobile communication terminal in a standby mode, the
communication quality between the mobile communication terminal and each second
peripheral base station listed in the acquired second neighbor
list, and between the terminal and each first
peripheral base station listed in the stored first neighbor list. Based on the measurement results, a
peripheral base station that satisfies a preset condition is selected as a hand-off destination candidate.