It is an object of this invention to select an information receiving method at a mobile station (MS) so as to avoid an increase in the transmission power of a base transceiver station (BTS) or redundancy or loss of received information at the mobile station (MS) in broadcast communication or multicast communication. A mobile station according to this invention includes a receiving method selection information acquiring unit (11, 14, 15, 16) for acquiring receiving method selection information for receiving the same information transmitted via a plurality of cells, and a determining unit (12) for determining whether to perform soft combining or selective combining on the same information based on the receiving method selection information.