A mobile terminal (and a method of controlling reception of the mobile terminal) can receive a given channel (second channel) even when a different channel (first channel) cannot appropriately be received, in the HSDPA transmission system for transmitting information necessary for a receiving process for the second channel through the first channel. The mobile terminal includes: first channel receiving processor performing a receiving process for the first channel and acquiring information regarding a receiving process for the second channel; second channel receiving processor performing the receiving process for the second channel using the information; holder holding the information; and reception controller controlling each of the channel receiving processor and the holder in such a way that the second channel receiving processor performs a receiving process for a newly received second channel using the information held in the holder.