A method for wireless communication by a user equipment, UE, comprising: receiving a service through a multimedia broadcast multicast service, MBMS, session; receiving, from a network entity, a first notification of an upcoming suspension of the MBMS session; requesting establishment of a unicast bearer prior to the upcoming suspension of the MBMS session upon receiving the first notification; and receiving a corresponding unicast version of the service of the MBMS session via unicast when the unicast bearer is established, characterized by: wherein the receiving the first notification comprises: receiving multicast channel scheduling information, MSI, that includes a set of logical channel identifiers, LCIDs; determining the MBMS session to be suspended based on an LCID in the set of LCIDs, wherein the LCID in the set of LCIDs is associated with a corresponding multicast traffic channel, MTCH, that corresponds to the MBMS session; determining that the LCID associated with the corresponding MTCH is a repeated LCID of one of the set of LCIDs; and determining an expected time of the upcoming suspension based on a reserved value that is included in the MSI and is associated with the repeated LCID, wherein the establishment of the unicast bearer is requested prior to the expected time of the upcoming suspension. receiving a service through a multimedia broadcast multicast service, MBMS, session; receiving, from a network entity, a first notification of an upcoming suspension of the MBMS session; requesting establishment of a unicast bearer prior to the upcoming suspension of the MBMS session upon receiving the first notification; and receiving a corresponding unicast version of the service of the MBMS session via unicast when the unicast bearer is established, characterized by: wherein the receiving the first notification comprises: receiving multicast channel scheduling information, MSI, that includes a set of logical channel identifiers, LCIDs; determining the MBMS session to be suspended based on an LCID in the set of LCIDs, wherein the LCID in the set of LCIDs is associated with a corresponding multicast traffic channel, MTCH, that corresponds to the MBMS session; determining that the LCID associated with the corresponding MTCH is a repeated LCID of one of the set of LCIDs; and determining an expected time of the upcoming suspension based on a reserved value that is included in the MSI and is associated with the repeated LCID, wherein the establishment of the unicast bearer is requested prior to the expected time of the upcoming suspension. receiving multicast channel scheduling information, MSI, that includes a set of logical channel identifiers, LCIDs; determining the MBMS session to be suspended based on an LCID in the set of LCIDs, wherein the LCID in the set of LCIDs is associated with a corresponding multicast traffic channel, MTCH, that corresponds to the MBMS session; determining that the LCID associated with the corresponding MTCH is a repeated LCID of one of the set of LCIDs; and determining an expected time of the upcoming suspension based on a reserved value that is included in the MSI and is associated with the repeated LCID, wherein the establishment of the unicast bearer is requested prior to the expected time of the upcoming suspension.