Section: 8.70 MBMS Service Area
Content: The MBMS Service Area is defined in 3GPP TS 23.246[ Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS); Architecture and functional description ]  [37]. The MBMS Service Area information element indicates the area over which the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service is to be distributed. The payload shall be encoded as per the MBMS-Service-Area AVP defined in 3GPP TS 29.061[ Interworking between the Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) supporting packet based services and Packet Data Networks (PDN) ]  [38], excluding the AVP Header fields (as defined in IETF RFC 3588 [39], clause 4.1). Figure 8.70-1: MBMS Service Area