Hold service on wireless calls

In a switching system for serving wireless customers, apparatus for temporarily suspending a connection from one of said wireless customers, comprising:

• means for temporarily disconnecting the one customer which sends a special indication from said connection in response to receipt of said indication from said one customer;
• means for making a record in said switching system of a port to which said one customer was connected;
• and
• means for re-connecting said one customer to said connection from which said one customer was temporarily disconnected, using said record, in response to receipt of a re-connect message from said one customer.

In a switching system for serving wireless customers, a method of temporarily suspending a connection from one leg of a conference connection, comprising:

• in response to a receipt of a special indication from a mobile station connected to said leg, disconnecting said mobile station from said conference connection;
• making a record in said switching system of a port to which said leg was connected;
• and
• in response to receipt of a re-connect request message from said mobile station, re-connecting said mobile station to said leg of said conference connection using said record.

In a switching system for serving wireless customers, a method for temporarily suspending a connection from one of said wireless customers, comprising the step of:

• in response to receipt of a special indication from the one customer, temporarily disconnecting said one customer from said connection;
• making a record in said switching system of a port to which said one customer was connected;
• and
• in response to receipt of a re-connect message from said one customer, re-connecting said one customer to said connection, using said record.