Packet call processing involving packet-based data transfers in a mobile
communications system can handle a packet call if the mobile station has
the ability to accommodate the packet call even when packet call
collision occurs. Upon detecting a packet call collision between a first
received packet call and a second received packet call, the mobile
station determines whether a Network Service Access Point Identifier
(NSAPI) is available and can be allocated to handle the second received
packet call. Thus, an increased number of packet calls that can be
processed simultaneously by the network and/or the mobile station so that
Internet-based applications, as well as other high-speed data
applications can be handled more effectively and efficiently. Such packet
call collision detection and NSAPI allocation techniques are applicable
to various wireless and/or mobile communications environments, such as
GMS, GPRS, UTMS, etc. involving data packet transmissions whereby packet
call collisions may occur.