Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating paging of an access
terminal operable in a radio communication system. The access terminal
detects a first page message that does not include an access sequence
identifier. The access terminal responds to the first page message
without waiting for detection of a second page message that includes an
access sequence ID. The response to the first page message includes an
access terminal retrieves from a shared pool of access sequence IDs
stored at the access terminal.