a notification method for informing a ue of an existence or absence of control information for an mbms in a mobile communication system supporting the mbms . in the method , the ue receives a notification indicator channel independently reporting the existence of the control information for the mbms , confirms at least one notification indicator of the notification indicator channel , thereby confirming the existence of the control information relating to the requested mbms . further , a method is proposed , which can minimize an alarm due to other mbmss .