This application discloses a communication method and apparatus. A terminal device determines a frequency position of a random access resource based on at least one of an initial frequency offset, a random access resource configuration period, an uplink channel bandwidth, a bandwidth of the random access resource, a time period of a random access resource, a time period of the random access resource, and a frequency index of the random access resource that are configured by a network device, and the terminal device sends a random access signal to the network device at the determined frequency position.