Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting at a mobile device a communication failure of a data connection between the mobile device and a source core network of a plurality of core networks available to the mobile device, the mobile device communicating with a respective core network of the plurality of core networks through a radio access network, selecting a destination core network of the plurality of core networks, and handing off the data connection from the source core network to the destination core network. Other embodiments are disclosed.