diff --git a/srsue/hdr/stack/rrc/rrc.h b/srsue/hdr/stack/rrc/rrc.h
index b2be787e9..a84792ff5 100644
--- a/srsue/hdr/stack/rrc/rrc.h
+++ b/srsue/hdr/stack/rrc/rrc.h
@@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ class cell_t
     this->has_valid_sib13 = false;
     this->phy_cell        = phy_cell;
     rsrp                  = rsrp_;
-    in_sync = true;
     bzero(&sib1, sizeof(sib1));
     bzero(&sib2, sizeof(sib2));
     bzero(&sib3, sizeof(sib3));
@@ -150,7 +149,6 @@ class cell_t
     if (!std::isnan(rsrp_)) {
       rsrp = rsrp_;
     }
-    in_sync = true;
     gettimeofday(&last_update, nullptr);
   }
 
diff --git a/srsue/src/stack/rrc/rrc.cc b/srsue/src/stack/rrc/rrc.cc
index 21124f65f..913b0f093 100644
--- a/srsue/src/stack/rrc/rrc.cc
+++ b/srsue/src/stack/rrc/rrc.cc
@@ -579,19 +579,9 @@ void rrc::clean_neighbours()
   }
 }
 
-// Sort neighbour cells by decreasing order of RSRP and remove old cells from neighbor list
+// Sort neighbour cells by decreasing order of RSRP
 void rrc::sort_neighbour_cells()
 {
-  // Remove out-of-sync cells
-  for (auto it = neighbour_cells.begin(); it != neighbour_cells.end();) {
-    if ((*it)->in_sync == false) {
-      rrc_log->info("Neighbour PCI=%d is out-of-sync. Deleting\n", (*it)->get_pci());
-      it = neighbour_cells.erase(it);
-    } else {
-      ++it;
-    }
-  }
-
   std::sort(std::begin(neighbour_cells), std::end(neighbour_cells), [](const unique_cell_t& a, const unique_cell_t& b) {
     return a->greater(b.get());
   });