Uplink session extension

An apparatus and method for controlling a wireless terminal and a destination terminal with a wireless content switch in a wireless packet data network. The wireless content switch monitors data packets and acknowledgments transmitted to and from the wireless terminal and the destination terminal. The wireless content switch detects disruptions in the wireless packet data network and sends a transmission to the terminal remaining in communication with the wireless content switch to place the remaining terminal in a wait state. The wireless content switch then monitors and detects an improvement in the wireless packet data network. After the wireless content switch detects an improvement, the wireless content switch resumes the session, continuing transmission from the point which the disruption occurred.