Described herein are methods and apparatus for receiving notifications at a wireless device from a base station of upcoming system information (SI) updates. The wireless device is communicating with the base station using a contiguous subset of physical resources on a first carrier. A method in a wireless device comprises obtaining an indication of a subset of a plurality of paging occasions in a SI modification period that the wireless device is configured to monitor, wherein responsive to an upcoming update of SI the base station is configured to transmit a notification on each of the plurality of paging occasions in the SI modification period; and monitoring the subset of the plurality of paging occasions for notifications of upcoming SI updates.