A method and corresponding equipment by which a service access point (SAP) of a radio access network is able to trigger a user equipment (UE) terminal to send scheduling information to the SAP for use by the SAP in scheduling/allocating resources for packet uplink from the UE to the SAP. The method uses an AG (absolute grant) or RG (relative grant) rate control/scheduling message as the trigger. The scheduling information is then sent by the UE via a MAC-e (medium access control-extended) PDU (protocol data unit).