request protocol determining at a particular time the measure of quality of the communications channel comparing the determined measure of quality with a predetermined channel quality threshold and selectively disabling the harq protocol based upon a first comparison result while continuing the sf between the bs and ms in other aspects after selectively disabling the harq protocol the method further includes determining that the time varying measure of quality of the communications channel has deteriorated below the predetermined channel quality threshold and selectively re enabling the harq protocol in the established sf application_number US 43406309 A description in the discussion of various embodiments and aspects of the system and method of this disclosure examples of ms ss 130 may include any one or more of for instance a personal computer portable computer personal digital assistant pda workstation web enabled mobile phone wap device web to voice device or other device those with skill in the art will appreciate that the inventive concept described herein may work with various system configurations in addition various embodiments of this disclosure may be made in hardware firmware software or any suitable combination thereof aspects of this disclosure may also be implemented as instructions stored on a machine readable medium which may be read and executed by one or more processors a machine readable medium may include any mechanism for storing or transmitting information in a form readable by a machine e g a computing device for example a machine readable storage medium may include read only memory random access memory magnetic disk storage media optical storage media flash memory devices and others further firmware software routines or instructions may be described herein in terms of specific exemplary embodiments that may perform certain actions however it will be apparent that such descriptions are merely.