Embodiments of the present invention provide a radio access control method. The method includes that a terminal device receives access control information sent by an access network device, wherein the access control information indicates a barred service type and a barred data transmission attribute to the terminal device; and the terminal device determines whether to send a radio resource control (RRC) connection request to the access network device based on the barred service type and the barred data transmission attribute; wherein the data transmission attribute comprises a transmission scheme type, the transmission scheme type is used to indicate a transmission scheme used by the terminal device for transmitting service data used by the terminal device. Thereby improving network resource utilization.