The present invention relates to the field of communication. Disclosed are a communication method and apparatus for conserving communication resources, the communication method comprises: a Hub Femto receives a first call request from a first fixed line telephone terminal sent by a private branch exchange, the first call request carries the identifier of a first mobile terminal; the Hub Femto determines that the first fixed line telephone terminal and the first mobile terminal are located within the coverage of the same local area network; the Hub Femto performs signal conversion for the fixed line telephone network signaling and the mobile network signaling of the first call request within the local area network; after signal conversion, the Hub Femto sends the first call request to an access point (AP) in a mobile network to which the first mobile terminal belongs, so that the AP initiates a call request to the first mobile terminal according to the identifier of the first mobile terminal.