Method of providing service and data rate negotiation in a mobile communication system

摘要

In a method of negotiating a service configuration in a communication system having first and second common channels shared by communication devices in the communication system, a request message indicative of a proposed service configuration is generated (20); the request message is transmitted (26) over the first common channel; an information data signal in accordance with the proposed service configuration is encoded if a response message is indicative of an acceptable service configuration; and the information data signal is encoded with a universal default service configuration if the response message is not indicative of an acceptable service configuration.