Speech freeze-out control equipment in a mobile satellite communication system having a plurality of telephone terminals, a control center connected with the telephone terminals through voice channels, a radio base station connected with the control center through time division multiplexing radio frequency channels, and a plurality of mobile stations connected with the base station through transponders, said control center performing, by assigning speech information from the telephone terminals to time slots of the time division multiplexing radio frequency channels, freeze-out of the speech information when sending the speech information to the base station so that the number of channels connected to the transponders is limited within a predetermined upper limit value, said speech freeze-out control equipment comprising:
- presence/absence detection means for detecting the presence and absence of a speech spurt of said speech information in frames on said voice channels;
- means for interrupting transmission from said control center to said radio base station in a time slot on said time division multiplexing radio frequency channels, said time slot corresponding to said voice channel including no speech spurt;
- means for counting the number of said voice channels including said speech spurt for each time slot on said time division multiplexing radio frequency channels, said counting being carried out from one frame interval before a current time to said current time, said means for counting producing a count value;
- means for freezing out speech information on one of said voice channels which is counted last when said count value exceeds said predetermined upper limit value;
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- means for transmitting speech information on one of said voice channels which is counted last to said base station when said count value of said voice channels including speech spurts is equal to or less than said predetermined upper limit value.