Analog retry

In a cellular mobile system having both analog and digital traffic channels and including a land system serving a plurality of cells and a plurality of mobile stations capable of using analog and digital traffic channels, a method of reducing disturbance of communications within the system comprising the steps of: in the land system: sending a directed retry order to a dual mode mobile station identifying at least one target cell; in the mobile station: accessing one of said at least one target cells identified in the received directed retry order; and in the accessed target cell: assigning to the accessing mobile station an analog traffic channel in preference over a digital traffic channel.