Method and apparatus for avoiding simultaneous service origination and paging in a group communication network

"METHOD AND EQUIPMENT TO AVOID SIMULTANEOUS SERVICE CREATION AND PAGING IN A GROUP COMMUNICATION NETWORK". A method and equipment to avoid simultaneous service creation and paging on a mobile unit (102, 104, 106) operating on a group communication network (100) provides for the receipt of a request to control the permission to speak, for example in the form of a short data burst (SDB - Short Data Burst), from a source or source communication device (102) to initiate a group call, initiating a service creation process for the source communication device (102), and transmitting a response to the request for control of the permission to speak from a controller (110) after the service creation process is complete. In one aspect, the method and the equipment provide the transmission of a response to the request to control the permission to speak from a wireless infrastructure after the service creation process is complete. In another aspect, the method and the equipment provide the initiation of the service creation process for the source communication device after transmission of the response to the source communication device.