is not efficient in a hsbs because such a handoff results in a high signaling load and may not be feasible since it is a fixed broadcast transmission not tailored for a particular subscriber station on the other hand because of the high power demand for transmission of the common broadcast forward channel there are only few common broadcast forward channel on a given cdma carrier which makes autonomous soft and softer handoff without the base station subscriber station signaling message exchange practical therefore instead of exchanging messages between a base station and a subscriber station desiring to handoff the information regarding broadcast transmission in neighbor base stations is announced by overhead messages on each channel f bsch in each base station because a subscriber may soft combine the only synchronous transmissions a broadcast service parameters message transmitted in each base station will list the identities of base stations that are part of this sector 39 s soft handoff sho group for each supported f bsch the method and system for signaling including both mentioned embodiments is described in detail in u s patent application ser no 09 933 914 entitled u201c method and apparatus for broadcast signaling in a wireless communication system.