Methods and systems for managing electronic content distribution are provided. Transmission of electronic content on a communication link responsive to a request received from a communication device may be precluded by the transmission of other electronic content, due to bandwidth limitations on the communication link, for example. An electronic content query is transmitted to the communication device if termination of transmission of the other electronic content on the communication link is detected, and transmission of electronic content specified in a response to the electronic content query is then initiated. Connections within a communication system may be managed in a similar fashion, with an electronic content query being transmitted to a communication device which has requested a connection when termination of an existing connection for the communication device is detected. In some embodiments, transmission of the electronic content query is controlled on the basis of a flag stored in a data structure.