To limit an operation outside the setting area of an information processing apparatus wirelessly communicating with a host device through a mobile communication network.

In the information processing apparatus wirelessly communicating with the host device through the mobile communication network, one or more base station identifiers are stored in a storage means, a packet counter is incremented when a base station identifier attached to a received packet does not match with any of the base station identifiers stored in the storage means, and communication is inhibited when the counted value reaches a set value.