Abstract: A method of operation of a radio system with data capability, for example a GSM cellular radio system with GPRS capability includes suspending data service while remaining logged on to the system and signalling from a remote station (10) to a serving data service support node (13) via a base station subsystem (11) that data service is suspended. In another aspect, data is exchanged over a data channel (100) during first time periods (102) and exchange of data over the data channel stops during second time periods (103) intermittent between the first time periods. During the second time periods paging requests communicated on a paging channel (101) are monitored at the remote station (10). A non-data service paging request is identified on the paging channel and the system responds to the non-data service paging request.