a traffic channel carries digital audio or digital data or both associated with a particular communication or telephone call the result of the demodulation by a traffic channel demodulator 310 is a signal that provides an indication of the data being transmitted via that traffic channel which is passed to combiner system 314 combiner system 314 combines the signals from the set of traffic channel demodulator 310 to produce a more accurate estimation of the data being transmitted this more accessible estimate can then be processed by other signal processing systems within subscriber unit 104 fig1 it should be noted that the estimates of the data provided by fht systems 308 will have a significant probability of error in some cases approaching ten percent 10 the errors are ordinarily corrected later via the process of error detection and correction encoding this error rate however will generally be low enough that substantial benefit will still be provided by subtracting the signal level that is calculated based on those estimates the above described method of transferring audio information and data via the forward link portion of a wireless telecommunication system communication provides improved efficiency and performance and an increased likelihood of accurate reception this is because more of the unnecessary signaling is removed before an estimate of the data is made when compared to the prior system the digitized signal received by a particular traffic channel demodulator 310 is comprised of the forward link signal 102 being demodulated other forward link signals 102 and background noise and other types of.