A cellular radio system and a handover method in a cellular radio system is provided. The cellular radio system includes a subscriber terminal and a base station. In the system, the subscriber terminal maintains and continuously updates an active set of base stations. One or several base stations belonging to the active set has a connection or connection set-up facilities to the subscriber terminal. The subscriber terminal controls the downlink transmission of one or several base stations of the active set by switching the transmission of the base station on or off. This method provides a fast soft handover similar to a hard handover.