AMPS: Call Initiation
user enters number and presses SEND
phone sends number to be called and own identity on
access channel (random access channel), retry in case
of collision
MTSO looks for idle channel (if caller is customer of
MTSO’s company or one of its partners) and sends
back channel number on the control channel
mobile phone switches to the selected voice channel
and waits until the called party picks up the phone