The present invention provides a method for establishing a multi-user call
in a communication system. The communication system receives a call
request to establish a group call with a shared group of users. The
communication system determines which of the plurality of individual
users should be excluded from the call and connects each of the group of
included users to establish a multi-user call. The communication system
preferably indicates that a unit was not currently available, for example
by playing a prerecorded message, playing a tone and also preferably
indicates why a unit was not available.