At&t Wireless Services, Inc.

Stephanie H Cantwell

David J Nix

Adrian Yip

David A Rostowsky

A method and an apparatus provide for controlling a remote unit's requests to access network resources in a wireless communication network. The method and apparatus scale back the frequency with which the remote unit attempts to establish a connection with a base unit, which connection would provide dial tone to a communication device associated with a remote unit. In accordance with the method, with each unsuccessful attempt to establish a connection with the base unit a retry timing interval is extended, thereby throttling back the number of establishment attempts by the remote unit.

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Stephanie H Cantwell