Method and device for determining a signaling address of a mobile services switching center in a cellular communication system

(57) The method and equipment which determine the signaling address of a mobile communications exchange station in the cellular communications system which offers the both sides of a summary circuit switching service and a packet switching service. By this method, the mobile communications exchange station in the service area where a terminal equipment exists using the information on the apparatus in the system connected on a transmission line to a terminal equipment is determined, without using the position information on a terminal equipment. A signaling address is determined based on such information. For this reason, the quota table and sorting tree which assign a signaling address to one or more apparatus or the information on one or more apparatus are used.