gprs interface 102 and wlan interface 104 further mobile terminal 100 has microprocessor 106 for running connectivity management program 108 and application program 110 by means of gprs interface 102 and wlan interface 104 mobile terminal 100 can establish respective communication channels 112 and 114 with gprs network 116 and wlan network 118 respectively in the example considered here mobile terminal 100 is in a geographic location that is covered by both gprs network 116 and wlan network 118 network component 120 is coupled to both gprs network 116 and wlan network 118 this way the communication channels 112 and 114 can be formed between mobile terminal 100 and network component 120 application server 122 serves for running application program 124 and is coupled to network component 120 in operation application program 110 of mobile terminal 100 requests the formation of a logical channel for transmission of data packets to application program 124 of application server 122 the request is received by connectivity management program 108 that establishes communication channels 112 and 114 by means of gprs interface 102 and wlan interface 104 respectively this way a gprs transport layer is formed on the basis of communication channel 114 and a wlan transport layer is formed on the basis of communication channel 114 connectivity management program 108 has a dispatcher functionality in other words connectivity management program 108 selects one or both of.