Apparatus, and an associated method for facilitating paging of an access
terminal operable in a radio communication system. The access terminal is
identified by part of a pseudorandom, or random, number, such as a
session seed. The part of the number is included in the page message when
the access terminal is to be paged. When included in the message, the
access terminal detects the page and the part of the number contained
therein that identifies the access terminal.