Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, for operating a mobile station to receive paging messages broadcast thereto. Determination of operating characteristics, such as noise levels or fading levels, are made. Responsive to such determinations, selection is made either to cause operation of the mobile station responsive to page indication bits broadcast upon a quick-paging channel (F-QPCH), or to merely monitor the paging channel in conventional manner.
Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, for a communication station, such as a mobile station operable pursuant to an IS-95/IS-2000 communication service and an HDR (High Data Rate) data communication service. The receiver part of the communication station includes first and second RF (Radio Frequency) receive portions, separately tunable to communicate pursuant to the communication services. A hard handover of communication is not required to be effectuated to receive one, or the other, of the services.