Disclosed are a network access method and a mobile communications terminal, said method comprising the following steps: obtaining the geographical location information of a mobile communications terminal; if the geographical location information of said mobile communications terminal is not the home geographical location information of the mobile communications terminal, then selecting, according to the geographical location information of said mobile communications terminal, a visited public land mobile network matching said geographical location information; adding said visited public land mobile network to an equivalent public land mobile network list; searching for a network according to the appended equivalent public land mobile network list, and if the visited public land mobile network is found, then executing a network registration operation for said mobile communications terminal.