A system comprising: a base station arranged to: receive information regarding cell access by user equipment in a cell forward access channel, Cell_FACH, state, allocate an enhanced dedicated channel radio network temporary identifier, E-RNTI, for the user equipment in the Cell_FACH state when the information regarding cell access is received; and a radio network controller, RNC, arranged to: receive, from the base station, a second message (620, 725) that includes the E-RNTI and a radio resource control, RRC, message, the RRC message being received by the base station in a first message (610, 715) from the user equipment, the RNC being further arranged to: generate a message (650, 750) that includes a dedicated high speed downlink shared channel radio network transaction identifier, H-RNTI, and the E-RNTI, in addition to an RRC message response (640, 740), received by the RNC from another RNC (124-N), that also includes the dedicated H-RNTI and the E-RNTI, and provide the message (650, 750) to the base station, and the base station being correspondingly further arranged to: receive, from the RNC, the message (650, 750) that includes the dedicated H-RNTI and the E-RNTI, in addition to said RRC message response (640, 740) that also includes the dedicated H-RNTI and the E-RNTI. a base station arranged to: receive information regarding cell access by user equipment in a cell forward access channel, Cell_FACH, state, allocate an enhanced dedicated channel radio network temporary identifier, E-RNTI, for the user equipment in the Cell_FACH state when the information regarding cell access is received; and receive information regarding cell access by user equipment in a cell forward access channel, Cell_FACH, state, allocate an enhanced dedicated channel radio network temporary identifier, E-RNTI, for the user equipment in the Cell_FACH state when the information regarding cell access is received; and a radio network controller, RNC, arranged to: receive, from the base station, a second message (620, 725) that includes the E-RNTI and a radio resource control, RRC, message, the RRC message being received by the base station in a first message (610, 715) from the user equipment, the RNC being further arranged to: generate a message (650, 750) that includes a dedicated high speed downlink shared channel radio network transaction identifier, H-RNTI, and the E-RNTI, in addition to an RRC message response (640, 740), received by the RNC from another RNC (124-N), that also includes the dedicated H-RNTI and the E-RNTI, and provide the message (650, 750) to the base station, and generate a message (650, 750) that includes a dedicated high speed downlink shared channel radio network transaction identifier, H-RNTI, and the E-RNTI, in addition to an RRC message response (640, 740), received by the RNC from another RNC (124-N), that also includes the dedicated H-RNTI and the E-RNTI, and provide the message (650, 750) to the base station, and the base station being correspondingly further arranged to: receive, from the RNC, the message (650, 750) that includes the dedicated H-RNTI and the E-RNTI, in addition to said RRC message response (640, 740) that also includes the dedicated H-RNTI and the E-RNTI.