or networks based on 3g 1x ev do 3g 1x ev dv and umts technologies that may currently support or be adapted to support bcmcs for example and are contemplated by the teachings herein additionally where used below the term u201c mobile terminal u201d may be considered synonymous with user equipment subscriber bcmc capable mobile terminal bcmc subscriber user remote station mobile station access terminal etc and describes a remote user of wireless resources in a wireless communication network groups of bcmc capable mobile terminals of bcmcs may be occasionally referred to as a u2018 bcmc group u2019 or u2018 multicast group u2019 for purposes of brevity the term u2018 base station u2019 may be considered synonymous to a node b as defined in utran and describes equipment that provides data connectivity between a network and one or more mobile terminals a system or network such as an access network may include one or more base stations point to multipoint services such as bcmcs allow data from a single source entity to be transmitted to multiple endpoints bcmcs is intended to efficiently use radio network resources in transmitting data over a radio channel data may be transmitted to multicast areas as defined by the network a network may selectively transmit bcmc content on sectors within the multicast area that contains members of a multicast group such as a bcmc group of.