Telecommunication network with mobile voice conferencing system and method

In a telecommunication network including a plurality of mobile telephones and a conference bridge for making voice conference connections between a plural number of the plurality of mobile telephones when communication linked with the conference bridge, the improvement being a connection recovering, mobile voice conferencing method, comprising the steps of:

• associating one mobile telephone from the plurality of mobile telephones with at least one of a plurality of subnetworks of a mobile switching center interconnected between a public switched telephone;
• transmitting a signal from the one mobile telephone to the associated subnetwork,
• sending a conference request message from the associated subnetwork to the mobile switching center in response to the signal from the one mobile telephone;
• making connection at the mobile switching center of the one mobile telephone to the conference bridge in response to receipt of the conference request message,
• detecting disconnection of a conference communication link between any one mobile telephone of the plural number mobile telephones and the conference bridge;
• and
• automatically establishing reconnection of the conference communication link between the one mobile telephone and the conference bridge in response to detection of disconnection by sending from the associated subnetwork the conference request message to the mobile switching center to establish reconnection of the communication link with the one mobile telephone automatically in response to detecting disconnection of the communication link with the one mobile telephone.