A CDMA mobile communication
system which creates the time during which
peripheral base stations using different radio frequencies and executes the hand-off between base stations using different radio frequencies without momentary interruption. A
mobile station (504) of the CDMA mobile communication
system suspends the
error correcting and decoding
processing of received signals, outputs user data which are not subjected to the
error correcting and decoding
processing, and, during this suspending time, monitors the receiving levels of the
peripheral base stations by switching the receiving frequency to the radio frequencies of the base stations. The
base station (502) now in contact and the next
base station (503) transmit only the user data during the hand-off period from the
base station (502) to the next base
station (503) using different frequencies and do not transmit transmission signals during the transmitting period of an
error correcting and encoding check bit. The
mobile station (504) receives and demodulates signals transmitted from the base
station (502) and, during the transmitting period of the error correcting and encoding check bit, receives and demodulates signals transmitted from the next base
station (503) by switching the frequency of its
receiver to that of the next base station (503).