Patent ID: 8634832

Claim:
A method, of an entity in a wireless telecommunications network having a pool of Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs) and a Home Location Register (HLR), the method comprising the steps of: sending pages from a network interface to mobiles associated with a failed MSC of the pool of MSCs and experiencing termination isolation; receiving responses to the pages at the network interface from at least some of the mobiles; producing a registration having updated location information, with a processing unit, for each response received by the network interface; and sending from the network interface the registration to the HLR to end each mobile's termination isolation for which a response was received by the network interface, including the step of using a paging list of mobiles known to be assigned by the failed MSC, by the processing unit, to determine which mobiles in the network are to be sent the pages, the processing unit ceasing to send pages when the failed MSC recovers while some of the mobiles associated with the failed MSC have not been sent a page; wherein the pages sent to mobiles associated with the failed MSC are sent in direct response to detecting that the failed MSC has failed.