A mobile station receives at least one frequency listing that identifies M downlink frequencies that may be used to receive communications from a wireless telecommunications network and N uplink frequencies that may be used to transmit communications to the wireless telecommunications network (M and N are integers greater than one). The mobile station selects a downlink frequency from among the M downlink frequencies and selects an uplink frequency from among the N uplink frequencies, independently of the downlink frequency. To make these selections, the mobile station may use a downlink hashing algorithm to map an identifier of the mobile station (such as MDN, MIN, IMSI, or ESN) to one of the M downlink frequencies and an uplink hashing algorithm to map the identifier to one of the N uplink frequencies.