Method for connecting and / or disconnecting disconnectable network elements in a cellular network and selbiges

The invention relates to a method for connecting and / or disconnecting disconnectable network elements in a cellular network and a cellular network that uses this method. The object of the invention to identify a selection of the active turn-off network elements based on spatio-temporal characteristics of the data transfer requests is solved by - a spatial and temporal density of subscribers is determined, - a spatial and a temporal network element density of the active turn-off network elements is determined, - a relation between the density of subscribers and the network element density being from an optimum number of the active turn-off network elements is calculated in the mobile network and are therefore switched disconnectable network elements in space and time and / or off is formed.