Ai1 alternative stntegy (AS) for reducing location update signalling load has hc11 yroposcd 10 improve the classical strategy (CS) used in the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). Bowevet, the AS is suitablc only Ibr long-term events and fixed movement tracks. Location tracking (paging) costs more when tlic rnobilc host (MH) changes iiiovcment habits or cncoiinlcrs short-term events. A novel method is proposcd that aims to reduce signalling load resulting from location tracking in ihc above situations. The key idea is to takc iiscr rccciit inoveinent information (called the paging idormioI1 rccordj into account to detenninc which location area to page first. Performance evaluation has been conducted using ii city area zone modcl that can model H redistic city area environment. Expcrimcnlal rcsults show that the method can rcducc location munagement signillling costs by 1655% and 639% conipared to CS and AS, rcslxctivcly. The overhead of the :ipproach is the additional storage spacc rcquired (for storing MH procilcs and pdgitig infonnalion rccords) and the additionel processing time. Howcvcr, Lhc overhead is insignificant in terms of loday's memoly ctipacity and processor speed, and Ihc r'cduction in signalIing load makcs tnorc bandwidth available.