A method for wireless communications, comprising: determining quality of service - subsequently abbreviated as QoS - parameters of a first radio access technology - subsequently abbreviated as RAT; translating the QoS parameters of the first RAT to the QoS parameters of a second RAT, wherein the translating includes applying an equation to a first value of one of the QoS parameters of the first RAT to obtain a second value of one of the QoS parameters of the second RAT, wherein the equation is selected based on the type of data delivery and mode of operation of the first or second RAT, the type of data delivery comprising at least one of an unsolicited grant, a best effort, a real-time variable rate, or a combination thereof and the mode of operation comprising a verbose mode or a non-verbose mode; and performing a handover using the translated QoS parameters from a first network utilizing the first RAT to a second network utilizing the second RAT; wherein: one of the first and the second RATs comprises a code division multiple access-subsequently abbreviated as CDMA - high rate packet data - subsequently abbreviated as HRPD-RAT, and the QoS parameters of the other RAT comprise parameters related to CDMA HRPD in verbose mode comprising at least one item selected from a group including: traffic class, peak rate, token bucket size, token rate, maximum latency, maximum Internet Protocol packet loss rate median packet size, and delay variation sensitivity indicator. determining quality of service - subsequently abbreviated as QoS - parameters of a first radio access technology - subsequently abbreviated as RAT; translating the QoS parameters of the first RAT to the QoS parameters of a second RAT, wherein the translating includes applying an equation to a first value of one of the QoS parameters of the first RAT to obtain a second value of one of the QoS parameters of the second RAT, wherein the equation is selected based on the type of data delivery and mode of operation of the first or second RAT, the type of data delivery comprising at least one of an unsolicited grant, a best effort, a real-time variable rate, or a combination thereof and the mode of operation comprising a verbose mode or a non-verbose mode; and performing a handover using the translated QoS parameters from a first network utilizing the first RAT to a second network utilizing the second RAT; wherein: one of the first and the second RATs comprises a code division multiple access-subsequently abbreviated as CDMA - high rate packet data - subsequently abbreviated as HRPD-RAT, and the QoS parameters of the other RAT comprise parameters related to CDMA HRPD in verbose mode comprising at least one item selected from a group including: traffic class, peak rate, token bucket size, token rate, maximum latency, maximum Internet Protocol packet loss rate median packet size, and delay variation sensitivity indicator. one of the first and the second RATs comprises a code division multiple access-subsequently abbreviated as CDMA - high rate packet data - subsequently abbreviated as HRPD-RAT, and the QoS parameters of the other RAT comprise parameters related to CDMA HRPD in verbose mode comprising at least one item selected from a group including: traffic class, peak rate, token bucket size, token rate, maximum latency, maximum Internet Protocol packet loss rate median packet size, and delay variation sensitivity indicator.