The method pages (fig 2) a wireless terminal in a wireless telecommunications system and transmits a quick page message via a less encoded channel and generates a full page message via a more encoded channel. The quick page massege contains less information than the full page message. The quick page message is for notifying the wireless terminal to begin processing for the full page message, and comprises a single bit of data. The full page message is transmitted during a second time slot assigned to the wireless terminal that occurs after the first time slot.