FIELD: telecommunications engineering. SUBSTANCE: short minimalcoding page link is established for transmitting short-page messages during one of sets of paging time intervals. Short-page message indicates that request for establishing communications is received and that receiving communication terminals should process full-page link with higher degree of coding to transmit more detailed full-page messages during next time interval. Terminal checks up full-page link only after short-page message has been received in short-page link. EFFECT: reduced power requirement in stand-by state. 11 cl, 7 dwg, 1 tbl
