Provided is a mobile wireless terminal connected to a base station via wireless, including: a storage section which stores and holds a plurality of handover execution threshold values used for execution of handover processing of changing connection in a wireless communication network; a service suspension period identifying section which identifies a service suspension period occurring at a time of the handover processing; a handover execution threshold value selecting section which selects, based on a value of the service suspension period identified by the service suspension period identifying section, one handover execution threshold value among the plurality of handover execution threshold values stored in the storage section; and a control section which executes the handover processing based on the one handover execution threshold value selected by the handover execution threshold value selecting section and a received radio signal.