Optionally, in an implementation, the configuration information includes report-free indication information, and the report-free indication information is used to indicate the terminal device to directly perform random access to the first target cell after determining the first target cell that satisfies the trigger condition, with no need to send a measurement report to the first network device. Alternatively, in an implementation, the configuration information may not include the report-free indication information. In this case, in this embodiment of this application, it may be implicitly determined that the terminal device may not report the measurement report. For example, it is stipulated, according to a preset rule or a protocol, that after the receiving the configuration information sent by the first network device, the terminal device does not need to report the measurement report after a handover condition is triggered, but is handed over to the target cell that satisfies the trigger condition.
450. The terminal device performs random access to the target cell.
Specifically, after receiving the conditional handover configuration information, the terminal device determines whether the handover trigger condition is satisfied. In this period, the terminal device keeps transmitting data with the first network device. When the handover trigger condition is satisfied, the terminal device determines the target cell, and performs a random access process with the target cell, that is, initiates random access to a second network device corresponding to the target cell. It should be understood that the terminal device may access the target cell through a contention-free random access process or a contention-based random access process. This embodiment of this application is not limited thereto.