Radio telephone system supporting automatic busy and out-of-range indications

A radio telephone communication system, comprising:

• a base station with at least one frequency agile transceiver capable of time division duplex operation on at least one radio frequency channel for facilitating communication with at least one radio telephone on the at least one radio frequency channel;
• and
• a radio telephone capable of determining an acquisition status of the at least one frequency agile transceiver in the base station, the radio telephone comprising:
• means for scanning a plurality of channels capable of being generated by the at least one frequency agile transceiver to find an available channel, the plurality of channels including the at least one radio frequency channel;
• and
• means for providing an indication representing a base station busy status when all of the at least one frequency agile transceivers are in use as determined by the means for scanning the plurality of channels, the determination indicating no available channels when one of:
• bidirectional time division duplex communication including a base station identification signal is being communicated by the at least one frequency agile transceiver on the at least one radio frequency channel;
• and
• unidirectional time division duplex communication including a base station identification signal is being communicated by the at least one frequency agile transceiver on the at least one radio frequency channel.