A method for reducing access channel delay in a 3GPP LTE wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: a user equipment, UE, transmitting a random access preamble having an associated identifier; an enhanced nodeB, eNB, receiving at least one random access preamble, each of the al least one random access preamble having an associated identifier, the eNB sending a random access response that includes identifiers of any random access preambles received by the eNB, the random access response including an indicator that indicates whether any more random access responses with random access preamble identifiers are going to be sent by the eNB within a random access response window; the UE receiving the random access response; the UE recognizing that the identifier of the random access preamble transmitted by the UE is not in the received random access response; the UE determining from the indicator that there will be no more random access responses with identifiers sent by the eNB within the random access response window; and in response to the UE recognizing that the identifier of the random access preamble transmitted by the UE is not in the received random access response and the UE determining from the indicator that there will be no more random access responses with identifiers sent by the eNB within the random access response window, the UE transmitting another random access preamble before the end of the random access response window, the eNB receiving another random access preamble before the end of the random access response window from the UE that has recognized that the identifier of the random access preamble transmitted by the UE is not in the received random access response and has determined from the indicator that there will be no more random access responses with identifiers sent by the eNB within the random access response window, wherein the indicator is a reserved value of the Backoff indicator in a Media Access Control subheader. a user equipment, UE, transmitting a random access preamble having an associated identifier; an enhanced nodeB, eNB, receiving at least one random access preamble, each of the al least one random access preamble having an associated identifier, the eNB sending a random access response that includes identifiers of any random access preambles received by the eNB, the random access response including an indicator that indicates whether any more random access responses with random access preamble identifiers are going to be sent by the eNB within a random access response window; the UE receiving the random access response; the UE recognizing that the identifier of the random access preamble transmitted by the UE is not in the received random access response; the UE determining from the indicator that there will be no more random access responses with identifiers sent by the eNB within the random access response window; and in response to the UE recognizing that the identifier of the random access preamble transmitted by the UE is not in the received random access response and the UE determining from the indicator that there will be no more random access responses with identifiers sent by the eNB within the random access response window, the UE transmitting another random access preamble before the end of the random access response window, the eNB receiving another random access preamble before the end of the random access response window from the UE that has recognized that the identifier of the random access preamble transmitted by the UE is not in the received random access response and has determined from the indicator that there will be no more random access responses with identifiers sent by the eNB within the random access response window, wherein the indicator is a reserved value of the Backoff indicator in a Media Access Control subheader.