A method for carrying out a multimedia broadcast multicast service, a home base station, a network management system of the home base station and user equipment. The method includes: acquiring, by a home network side entity, multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) configuration information of a macro cell, the MBMS configuration information of the macro cell comprising first MBMS configuration information, the first MBMS configuration information comprising position information of a multimedia broadcast multicast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe in the macro cell; and configuring a subframe of a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell at a position which is the same as that of the MBSFN subframe of the macro cell into a first almost blank subframe (ABS) or into a first ABS and MBSFN subframe, according to the acquired first MBMS configuration information, so that the user equipment (UE) is capable of receiving the MBMS of the macro cell.