are encoded by walsh codes with sequential indexes however one of ordinary skill in the art appreciates that other relationships are within the scope of the invention because in accordance with the embodiment there is no relationship between one subscriber station and one control channel 1202 i the subscriber stations must demodulate all the transmitted control channels 1202 i although a number of transmitted control channels 1202 i is equal to a number of subscriber stations for which information is send on a f pdch because the number of subscriber stations may change in accordance with the granularity of the f pdch as described above the number of transmitted control channels 1202 i changes in one embodiment the channels 1202 i are transmitted concurrently consequently each of the subscriber stations accumulates data from all the channels 1202 i and then post processes the accumulated data during the post processing each of the subscriber stations first demodulates the control channel 1202 1 and decodes a mac id of block 1204 the subscriber station with mac id identical to the mac id of block 1204 decodes the remaining information and processes the sub packet on the f pdch in accordance with the gathered information the subscriber stations whose mac ids are not identical to the mac id of block 1204 decode the number of transmitted control channels 1202 i of block 1214 cease further post processing of the control channel 1202 1 and repeat the procedure for the next channel 1208 i therefore the subscriber stations have information about the number of transmitted control channels 1208 i because as discussed there exists a relationship between the number of transmitted control channels 1208 i unless the.