The present invention sets forth a method and apparatus for controlling terminal's access to a wireless network. When PCC rules in PCRF or account expense information in OCS have been updated, the PCRF or OCS will notify a MDM server; the server determines access status of application(s) based on information in the notification and notifies the terminal; the terminal will update locally stored access status of the application based on access status of the application contained in the received notification message; when an application on the terminal initiates a request to access the wireless network, the terminal determines whether it is rejected or allowed to access the wireless network based on the locally stored access status of the application. With the present method, when an end user is not allowed to use some network applications due to expense issue or other policy constraint, although the terminal will automatically attempt to send a request to retry connection, that request to retry connection can not access wireless network, nor can it reach core network, so as to avoid consuming RF resource and core network resource.