Predictive qos resource allocation for rapid session establishment

A method for allocating QoS resources comprising the steps of: detecting (307), by a radio access network, that a communication request (305) from an application server (302) has been marked for a communication requiring QoS resources with an access terminal (304) as requiring QoS resources; and in response to detecting that the communication request (305) has been marked as requiring QoS resources: allocate (327), by the radio access network, the QoS resources before receiving any resource allocation request from QoS from the access terminal (304) to allocate the necessary QoS resources.