the procedure ends at mobile device 205 when the scri message 215 is delivered successfully to the utran 210 fig3 illustrates a signaling connection release indication process with cause in accordance with a prior art if the utran supports the scri process with cause then it can initiate a state transition for the mobile device to a battery efficient state the battery efficient states includes an idle state a cell paging channel state a utran registration area ura paging channel state and a cell forward access channel state upper layers 320 indicate that there is no packet switched ps data present for transmission as shown in step 325 a radio resource control layer rrc 315 of the mobile device on reception of the indication transmits the scri with cause to the network for example the utran and starts the timer as shown in step 330 the utran on reception of the scri with cause transmits an acknowledgement at step 335 for signaling connection release to a radio link control layer rlc 310 of the mobile device the utran makes a transition for the mobile device to a battery saving state as shown in step 340 the scri message with cause can lead to signaling load at the utran to reduce this load a timer 345 is introduced at the mobile device if the timer 345 is running the mobile device is prohibited from transmitting the scri message with cause the timer then expires or ceases to run fig4 illustrates a signaling connection release indication process with cause on cease of a timer if the utran supports the scri process with cause then it can initiate a state transition for a mobile device to a battery.