A method of paging for wireless networks, the method comprising: synchronizing a paging window clock of a server to a paging window clock of a wireless terminal operating in the wireless network configured to send pages to wireless terminals in specific frames and in which each wireless terminal is configured to wake-up and monitor for a relevant page destined for that wireless terminal by the wireless network and then enter a traffic mode when the relevant page is present, and wherein a multiframe paging interval exists between each traffic mode for each wireless terminal; transmitting at least one parameter to a first wireless terminal to derive a paging window and a dormant window for communicating between the server and the first wireless terminal based at least in part on the paging window clock of the server, wherein the paging window and the dormant window are separate from the paging interval used between a base station and the first wireless terminal and the paging window and the dormant window cause extension of the time between each traffic mode for the first wireless terminal, wherein a duration of the paging window is greater than a duration of the paging interval used between the base station and the wireless terminal, and wherein a duration of the dormant window is greater than the duration of the paging interval used between the base station and the wireless terminal and wherein the server and the first wireless terminal independently run a common timing algorithm based on said at least one parameter to maintain synchronization between the paging window and the dormant window and to extend the standby mode in the first wireless terminal; waking-up the first wireless terminal during the paging window when the algorithm running independently on both the server and the wireless terminal reaches a predefined state that causes wake-up of circuitry of the first wireless terminal for a predetermined time to allow the first wireless terminal to receive and respond to a relevant page in the event that the relevant page is transmitted to the first wireless terminal in a paging period during the paging window, wherein the algorithm causes the first wireless terminal to remain in the standby mode outside of the predetermined time set by the algorithm and wherein during the dormant window the circuitry of the first wireless terminal sleeps. synchronizing a paging window clock of a server to a paging window clock of a wireless terminal operating in the wireless network configured to send pages to wireless terminals in specific frames and in which each wireless terminal is configured to wake-up and monitor for a relevant page destined for that wireless terminal by the wireless network and then enter a traffic mode when the relevant page is present, and wherein a multiframe paging interval exists between each traffic mode for each wireless terminal; transmitting at least one parameter to a first wireless terminal to derive a paging window and a dormant window for communicating between the server and the first wireless terminal based at least in part on the paging window clock of the server, wherein the paging window and the dormant window are separate from the paging interval used between a base station and the first wireless terminal and the paging window and the dormant window cause extension of the time between each traffic mode for the first wireless terminal, wherein a duration of the paging window is greater than a duration of the paging interval used between the base station and the wireless terminal, and wherein a duration of the dormant window is greater than the duration of the paging interval used between the base station and the wireless terminal and wherein the server and the first wireless terminal independently run a common timing algorithm based on said at least one parameter to maintain synchronization between the paging window and the dormant window and to extend the standby mode in the first wireless terminal; waking-up the first wireless terminal during the paging window when the algorithm running independently on both the server and the wireless terminal reaches a predefined state that causes wake-up of circuitry of the first wireless terminal for a predetermined time to allow the first wireless terminal to receive and respond to a relevant page in the event that the relevant page is transmitted to the first wireless terminal in a paging period during the paging window, wherein the algorithm causes the first wireless terminal to remain in the standby mode outside of the predetermined time set by the algorithm and wherein during the dormant window the circuitry of the first wireless terminal sleeps.