The embodiment of the invention provides an edge user determining method and base station equipment. The method includes the steps that a base station issues first measurement information to UE which newly gets access to a service cell to which the UE belongs, the first measurement information is used for instructing the UE to report the first measurement result according to a preset first reporting rule when the UE measures that the RSRP value of the cell to which the UE belongs meets the first preset condition; if the first measurement result reported by the UE is received, the UE is determined as an edge user. The base station issues measurement information to the UE which newly and successfully gets access to the service cell to which the UE belongs, the measurement information requires that the UE should only measure the RSRP value of the cell to which the UE belongs, and the measurement result is reported to the base station when the obtained RSRP value meets a certain condition, so that the base station can determine whether the UE is an edge user or not according to the measurement result. In the whole determining process, the UE only needs to measure the RSRP value of the cell without the need for measuring the RSRP value of a neighboring cell, and thus operation is easy to perform.