Abstract: A method of establishing a telecommunications call connection in a cellular wireless system. If a mobile station is near the border between areas served by two mobile switching center (MSCs) then the mobile is paged from appropriate base stations of one of the MSCs while the other MSC is alerted to listen for page responses from the paged mobile station. Advantageously, the number of paging orders is substantially reduced thus increasing the call handling capacity of the base station systems. The second MSC is initialized to be prepared to process a page response from the mobile station being paged from the base stations of the first MSC. Advantageously, this permits straightforward recognition of a valid paging response and a record of the call with which that response is associated.

Abstract: A diaper for a dog or other small quadruped comprises a textile body band and tail band forming a T with fasteners at one or both ends of the body band and the end of the tail band and an absorbent pad affixed to the inside surface of the tail band at its junction with the body band. The body band is wrapped around the dog's body with its ends on its back and those ends are connected by their fasteners. The tail band is brought over its rump and back and fastened to the body band ends at their junction so that the absorbent pad is against the dog's genital and anal areas. The tail band may be unitary with an opening for the dog's tail, or bifurcated.