Abstract: Several telecommunication-processing methods and an associated apparatus are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: a) determining a mobile called party is not available for an original call initiated by a calling party, b) communicating an announcement to the calling party offering notification when the mobile called party becomes available, c) in response to the calling party electing the notification offer, periodically determining if the mobile called party is available, d) after determining the mobile called party is available, initiating a first call to the calling party with an announcement indicating that the mobile called party is available and offering to connect the calling party with the mobile called party, and e) in response to the calling party electing the connect offer, initiating a second call to the mobile called party and connecting the first and second calls. In other embodiments, the mobile called party is either “not registered” or “busy.