Abstract: A communication system (100) employs a method (300) and apparatus (118) for allocating communication resources (e.g., 127-128) to support priority communications by communication units (112, 114-116) in the communication system (100). The communication system includes infrastructure equipment that allocates the communication resources to the communication units (112, 114-116). When the infrastructure equipment automatically determines (303) that a communication unit (e.g., 112) desires to initiate a priority call, the infrastructure equipment reserves (307) a communication resource (127) for the communication unit (112) at a base site (101) of the infrastructure equipment serving the communication unit (112). The serving base site (101) then allocates (309) the reserved communication resource (127) to the communication unit (112) upon the communication unit's initiation of the priority call.

Abstract: The method operates in a system including a switching center, a base station responsive to the switching center and a mobile communication unit responsive to the base station, and includes receiving a first message from the mobile communication unit; in response to the first message, determining whether the mobile communication unit is fraudulent; based on the determination, receiving a second message at the switching center from a dedicated fraud indicator wireline connection; and in response to the second message, terminating the wireless communication of the mobile communication unit.