To provide a mobile terminal, a wireless portion power control method and a program for wireless portion power control, capable of suppressing power consumption in an out-of-service state.

The mobile terminal is provided with a communication service by performing wireless communication with a base station through a wireless portion 11. The wireless portion 11 includes a data transmission/reception means 111 for transmitting and receiving data to/from the base station by the wireless communication and a reception level measurement means 112 for measuring the reception level of radio waves of a frequency band transmitted from the base station so as to detect the base station to be a communicating party. The mobile terminal includes a presence-in-area determination means 12 for determining whether or not the mobile terminal is present inside the service area of the base station from the reception level measured by the reception level measurement portion 112, an altitude measurement means 13 for measuring the altitude at which the mobile terminal is positioned, and a power supply control means 14 for controlling power supply to the wireless portion 11 on the basis of a determined result by the presence-in-area determination means 12 and a measured result by the altitude measurement means 13.

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