A system for, and method of, reducing power consumed obtaining system information from a cell, the system information contained in at least a master information block, a scheduling information block and a system information block. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a broadcast control channel (BCCH) frame cache configured to buffer received BCCH frames bearing portions of the system information and (2) a system information verifier associated with the BCCH frame cache and configured to determine version consistency in the master information block and the scheduling information block by employing the check numbers associated therewith.